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i'm on utc+2 (nov-mar) / utc+3 (apr-oct), for now. shorter life-updates, observations and mind-extension modes on my thoughts.page, rarer blurbs and lists on special.fish.
[2024]
wed, dec 11 ~ 8pm
just stuffed my face with popcorn and now i feel like writing down a bunch of shit before i head on the long-weekend trip from tomorrow afternoon :-D bought travel insurance just in case today while at work...
the keyboard of the main comp at work was recently replaced cos i guess the IT guys felt like havin one w an integrated id-card reader was a smarter idea than separate keyboard and reader (need the id-card reading for the new cash collection provider, they got some sort of online invoice[? cant bother to find the proper word for this in cash-collection case] filling form too). feels real nice to type on that one, i almost wish i was typing this shit up on that one... we have some sort of wireless keyboard at home, let me see if that one's pleasant to type on...? (okay not really, laptop keyboard it is)
okay so fucking uhhh. hold on i need to change the music, was gonna have something on that i haven't revisited in a bit but that'll have to wait til during the trip!
(i say and then proceed to put on rogue intruder soul enhancer which i TECHNICALLY also havent revisited in like 1.5 months at this point LOL but it's a tru certified flow state album for me)
ok what thehell did i want to write about. some-guy customer at work and related antics. this damn nice drinkstuff. trip anticipation. at-home antics against the bright-ass light.
ok so theres some older guy customer at my work, fortunately not the man who would be annoyingly flirty with me at times, told that man off some while back and he's mostly kept off with that since whenever he's encountered me. this man not as insufferable, just interesting (said in a mixed tone, not purely negative).
he's given me baked goods on a couple occasions, but he's only got a wood stove with no thermometer or anything so both times the shell has been annoyingly too charred for it to have been fully enjoyable. feels like a mild offense like damn why the hell u bringin me this shit! (especially after i took some sort of online minicourse on food safety type shit via work and found out theres carcinogen type shit happenin when food gets charred lol)
but other than this i don't really mind the guy? gave me a pair of woollen mittens that didnt fit his style or w/e, for free, that he'd got second-hand. not bad mitts, i prefer this over unsolicited roses and boxes of chocolate that occurred from the other guy (RUSSIAN CHOCOLATE NO LESS in this political climate?!?!? come the fuck on. and once in this literal climate cos one time he brought a box of em when it was like almost 30c outside????? okay rant over lol)
okay so. back to the not so insufferable guy. he's also been showing me vids of this pine marten that has been pilfering the lard that he puts out for the birds to peck on. funny as fuck lowkey, living the life. turns out to live in his attic as well š ok i think that will be all about this interesting customer entity person.
i went to this foodfair some time back in town, like a month ago, looked around. ended up buying a few things, including some sort of shrub (drink base) with ginger-honey-lemon flavour, from this company from saaremaa [one of the 2 big islands of estonia] that deals w hand-craft apple cider vinegar and related shit, the ppl tabling for em at the fair were letting others taste the stuff too and i was like. woagh strong as fuck. what the hell i need that shit
the stuff was 17ā¬/500ml bottle at the fair so im just a little annoyed i gotta pay up to 25ā¬ if i want more in usual circumstances haha, but the 4-pack would be too overkill right now. they had some black friday sale too and i usually give no fuckin shit about that stuff but i'm a bit miffed i missed theirs! i mean i don't directly care about the health benefits of the whole concoction or whatever, it's a benefit for sure but also this shit just tastes fucking GOOD
anyway the ingredients w more percentages are thus: honey 50%, lemon juice and ginger juice 17% each, apple cider vinegar, rosemary. strong as fuck, taking the stuff as a shot has hit nice but one of the suggestions on the bottle is tea-form which i haven't tried but it could be nice as fuck too.
(at the fair i also ended up buying hard cheese from goatmilk which ended up tasting too much like plastic for me to enjoy (?????), and some sort of cheese u can fry directly on the pan which was much much better, and a very very nice big cinnamon roll with i think rum essence added to it)
lost my mind a little too much over the bright light (in combo w the other more psychological things bout living in this apartment) to the point of remembering about some entirely unused spare large trash bags at my workplace, so i sort of just took those home n crafted half-assed diy dimming "curtains" from a couple of them, a few large paper clips bent into hooks taped above and bbq skewers taped together for weight and rollability. in rolled form they can be hung on the hooks.
really it's just that i didn't want to sink significant money into a place i'm wanting to ideally move out from. the bbq skewers were 1 whole euro and i have a bunch left, didn't have to pay shit for the rest, just a little time and effort. wanted to take the edge off of all this really...
also been continuing to go thru my stuff, as usual, a little too slowly for my liking but it is what it is. had the heart to toss my 1st grade school diary, what the hell am i gonna do with that in the future anyway, feels like an archival-burden otherwise, i got other stuff reminiscent of the times that i care about a little more, plus i could still write down shit for far further future me or whatever, of whatever lore i know and remember of schooltime me, while my memory still sharp enough.
okayyyyyyyyyy sooooooooo the trip :-D!!!!!!! it's funny how it's primarily babii and oli xl whisking me over to the event when dj storm and Ī¼-ziq are unarguably the Bigger Names on the bill of the 4 main ones (+ then theres a few bristolians too). looking forward to things!
i've still not got tix for the kishi bashi thing from dice waitlist, but i don't mind that too much. more time to hang out w the friend living there n comin to the nite and/or explore town if anything ! another friend was gonna come too but he remembered he had some obligations at home ā there'll be a next time... :,)
okay ... i really ought to prepare and figure out what to pack with me. leaving tomorrow (though leaving the country on early friday), getting back on sunday. rogue intruder listen-thru ending as i write this anyway!
we [friend and i] have got to grill oli about lick the lens a bit.
tue, nov 26 ~ 11pm
replaced the bearings and griptape on my kick scooter tonight, the new ones finally arrived today after having ordered them last week. if i managed to have enough fun riding it for probably 10km+ back in midjuly with the mildly fucked bearings, then this shit might make me lowkey unstoppable! but this will be a gift for the me of some 5 months onward from now...
the tinkering planted a thought in my head of 'hehe what if i were to take this thing apart and paint it a wholly different cuter color than plain ol blue', but i'll leave that for the future. i could have fun with stickers instead in the meantime, sometime.
the tinkerer part of my brain does also get some kind of a kick out of digging up most reasonably priced options for these occasional stupid little mostly-weekend trips of mine ā the other day (on the 21st) i may have finally gone in on buying tix for a silly little trip to catch this thing in bristol with dj storm, Ī¼-ziq, babii(! though i still havent listened to her newest, but have heard good word), oli xl(! though really partly an excuse to fly out for this/these cos if not for oli then i would not for most contexts i've caught him in), etc... dec 13. if not also the kishi bashi show preceding it as well, same venue and everything (the latter is sold out, so i'd only be able to if i get tix from waitlist; what are the odds?!? i used to listen to him quite a bit so it'd be cool). will be able to link up (again!) with at least one friend who's going to the clubnite, if not another (who's tentative on it rn). :-D
and i don't even have to transit thru london! though will have to transit thru amsterdam omw there and copenhagen omw back, ft briefest night in a hostel in town there, but cph doesn't feel like the worst place to have a brief-night transit in. maybe i'll be able to get more of those reallyyy nice norwegian gummy candies (laban, the original ones) from the dutyfree...? did get the days off in my work schedule too, so this is defo on.
i know it's kind of inane to ball like this in a world proverbially + literally on fire, and i've probably said that on this page before too, but, not to get political, i live literally less than an hour from russian border? those fuckers may well swallow me and my area up next if they get their way. let me (admittedly selfishly) feed my morale and lifeforce with these experiences while i can... & while i'm physically financially mentally etc able to in general.
suppose it'd be more inane to purely surround myself with Objects For Objects' Sake.
mon, nov 25 ~ 9pm
a little slideshow of pics from this month in lieu of an actual notebook entry (so i put it here instead of observations).
i might prop up something for the stockholm rift xl trip in the events logs page sometime. will see!
my hair needs a wash, but at the same time i'm into how it looks right now...?
i've been incorporating some of the broken-in-transit pan di stelle cookies in biscuit dessert type dealios (layers of sour cream + biscuit), very very nice like that.
my cat was apparently really confused for a day or so after i rearranged my room bless her
went to a gallery night thing last weekend, got to hang out with a couple of friends :-) bought a cute little handmade tiny porcelain cake-stand-like thing. and my miniorchid thrives.
that will b all for now...! mostly been a quiet life, as usual.
wed, nov 20 ~ 8:30pm
ended up feeling rather terrible last night before sleep, vented out a whole hidden thing on my thoughts.page, longer than some of my entries in here, spent a whole hour with that. but i guess i needed to get that out somehow.
tonight in one of my few confirmed home-alone few-hour times i've managed to make rather banger biscuit dessert, and rearranged my room finally, had been meaning to for some time. i might be happy with this setup, need some getting used to and a little bit of surface decluttering + this continual going thru shit at variable pace... but other than that, this might work quite well.
sat, nov 16 ~ 10pm
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im not very sure why it does this! but it's lowkey quite funny.
too lazy to write anything else in this notebook tonight so this will have to do, gonna walk off into the oliponders now
sun, nov 10 ~ 4pm
i did end up experimenting with the coconut palm sugar icing that night - managed to maintain silent-mode by sifting thru much of it to get the more coarse stuff out, didn't even need any further powdering, worked really well in icing form even though the regular plastic bag i used as icing bag was floppy as fuck, and the icing quite liquid itself, but surprisingly it didn't overflow by much at all once on the gingerbreads. taste? really beautiful. carameliness to it as expected. quite rich. would make again. ate the last of them earlier today, and the two friends i gave a few each also finished em in less than a day really. i entertained the thought of giving oli xl one too, but i felt too shy to speak with him much this time round. but, all good!
rift xl? overall nice! missed most of the esp set though >:-( but there'll be more opportunities i guess. at least jawnino's set (which partly overlapped with esp's) was cool as fuck too. and, time's starting to feel a little too much like a flat fucking circle from how many times ive caught oli now hahaha but it's cool! gave the lil letter this time after all too... and i had a big fucking burger meal at max prior to all that, some mighty mozzarella plant beef burger thing n cheese fries n a smoothie. fortunately didn't fuck me up, the sheer amount, guess i balanced it out by eating it slow enough and with all the dancing etc afterward. maybe i'll scrawl a more detailed log about all this in the event travel logs sometime.
i have 4 days off at hand right now. will try to make the okayest amount of them. today i've cleaned out my laptop's desktop and start menu shortcuts. wondering if to go in on cleaning stuff on the laptop more or do some cleaning irl too... really feel this urge to go in on this either way, some sort of 'if not now, then when' type thing...
yesterday i put up a long set of (warm white) string lights, all around my room. a couple of the led-s on it are bust but i'm not annoyed enough to make this anyone else's problem.
i miss riding around with the kick scooter a little, but can't bother to do it in this cold sometimes-wet weather. something to look forward to for next spring-summer. i've been thinking about buying new wheels for it though, have a thing of em bookmarked, might as well sometime, not that they'd get any cheaper.
fri, nov 01 ~ 10pm
strolled into the grocery store for bananas, and (actual) bananas i did get, and strepsils and masks from the pharmacy, but also These Three Fuckers For Seventeen Euro Total.
also im 28 now. what about it... i haven't packed for the rift xl trip yet, i really should.
i haven't even got around to making the icing for the gingerbreads i wanna decorate and then take some with me yet, and it might be a liiiiiiittle too late to grind the sugar for it - we may have no powdered sugar, unless the small stash is still there, will have to see. we do have a neat new stand mixer with powdering possibility but, it's a bit Loud and my parents may be Sleeping. (and even then i would like to experiment with adding at least some powdered coconut palm sugar in the icing this time around... i do have some, BUT will def have to powder it first. i mixed my current batch of cocoa-drink mix powder with that too, quite rich flavour.)
also been wanting to scribble oli a little letter of (continual) gratitude but ive been a little shy to advance past draft form + i'd not had the energy the past couple of days, didn't even listen to shit (except for calm radioing at work) on wednesday and thursday. will see cos rly wanna stillllll......
today things have been feeling clearer on the health front. got some decatylen from my parents yesterday, maybe it helped a bit with the throat - my voice was threatening to go away at one point!! but now things seem more fine. nose been only a little bit snotty too... will still grab masks with me on the trip, to be safe, and not to descend possible Post-YEAR0001-Rift Sickness upon anyone else... i caught some bullshit the first time i went to one of those which cucked me out of seeing oli xl in helsinki later that month (sept 2022) and, as per a friend's footage, hearing him drop cartoon fuckig smile in a dj set RAHHHHHHH (lightheartedly but also im still a little annoyed by this! i wanna hear that song loudly ngl!)
okay!!!! my laptop is running low on battery but the charger is charging my hunk of a power bank right now and i rly gotta figure my shit out for the trip bye!!!!!
wed, oct 30 ~ 11pm
list of things
- been fighting some kind of cold which is a bit annoying. have cycled thru scratchy throat (now gone), runny nose (worst yesterday? today i can at least look downward for longer without snot central), slight headache + slight nausea earlier today. hopefully this lets up by saturday or i'll be in hell on the flight(s), at this point will def mask up at rift xl to at least some degree if the symptoms dont let up, or even if they mostly do. i'll have to check my mask situation, allegedly the typical surgical ones might be enough to Protect Others From My Own Bullshit, and i have a tiny stash of em, gonna have to take stock.
- cos of this the brightness of some lights and such have been such an assault on my fragile senses... walked home without my glasses on today, was too overloaded to want to see clearly, and didn't have a very good time with the streetlights of one of the pedestrian paths yesterday.
- somehow i still managed to pull off making a whole load of gingerbreads today - have had earplugs in all evening which has saved my sanity... also managed to wash my hair over a while the other day, while the cold was already setting in. thank u past self
- being in the midst of 4 workdays whilst wrangling with this is kind of hell too, but it's fine i'll survive.
- redid the layout on this page. i like the lowkey-ness of this form (no huge month-separation, just small horizontal rules between months n specials between years; all entries in details tags). took much less effort converting from the prior form to this, bless regex for some of the weightlifting.
- will have to buy cat food very soon... running low.
thu, oct 25 ~ 6:30am
ive been up all night, no coherent thoughts frm here for now. i want to show the ikea bee plushies though while im bothered to add the pic, theyre very cute. i didnt get the otter with bby cos they got oversold n they returned the money for that. i'd lowkey like the bees to be a little heavier ngl! but i can mod em heavier myself if i was bothered to open a seam on em.
ok im hungry as fuck. time to go source some... food. thankful i dont have work today. been doing some absurd shit this night, alongside some lesssss absurd shit. ordered 5 of 1kg packages of pan di stelle cookies (theyre so so cute, got to eat them a couple years ago when in rome, i miss them...) as i suppose early birthday gift to myself, went to clean the cat litter box, made one nutella sandwich. brushing my teeth. in that order. listening to oli xl significantly slowed down. but mostly just doing fuck-all n discording on the comp. i need to like actually leep after eating.
thu, oct 24 ~ past midnight
theres this slightly annoying light that ws recently installed onto the adjacent apartment building, it shines quite brightly right into the windows of this side of this one, including that of my bedroom. but at the same time i have this little faceted glass thing hanging at my window for some time now, and only today did i notice that it's leaving little faintly-rainbow specks of light across some of my room from said light, maybe because i mostly have my string lights on that're currently scheduled to turn off at midnight...
room-temp butter and sliced cheese are nice to have at odd times of night
i managed to do both my loads of laundry (bedsheets at 60Ā°c, clothing at 40) on tuesday evening, and tonight during one of the two for-sure weekly brief few hours home alone i managed to make gingerbread dough. Fucking Unstoppable.
and i've been listening to [redacted] on loop for the past 6 hours...
mon, oct 21 ~ nearing midnight
meant to get around to writing in here earlier tonight but it's whole 11:45pm. i already only got like 5 hours of sleep last night... well, whatever, still wanna.
also: i'll see if to experiment with some sorta more separate-page-per-entry type notebooking... once i have more time.
ridiculous how the most societally mundane shit tends to take too much time and/or energy sometimes, especially while being on the spectrum or whatnot.
i could elaborate on some of the ways i function day to day, but i don't really want to as of now, used to get mediumkey singled out by some for being weird for reasons including this, echoes a bit to this day even though im not sure any of them would care enough to find me here... but! somehow i'm still socially presentable and everything, so maybe things work out okay enough. i've been like this with such since middle school, mind, hence the singling-out mention. but i try to be as diligent with my teeth as possible, for my own sake. maybe one nice thing about going to the local spa and sauna center on occasion is being more diligent w the clean(s)ing...
i wanted to do some laundry last week during my workbreak, even just the bedsheets, but somehow didn't even get round to it truly. at this point i might try to do the regular load on wednesday eve and the bedsheet load either sometime thursday or tomorrow eve...
also im stupidly overdue on going to the dentist, i don't know. i really should, sometime. not chuffed about having to pay for it, or most of it anyway, what with the scant yearly allowance from the health services thing. strat of starting off with this a little closer to end of year so i could grab the yearly allowances from both this and next year in case some shit were to have to be scheduled into next year...? i'll see. really overdue.
been slow in going thru my room, but even the smallest steps can be nice... tonight i took a bit of time to clean/declutter the surface of the tiny desklike entity to some extent. progress could still be made, but it's much better already. and the other day i finally cleared out some overdue shit from beneath said desklike, feels a little more... spacey. and my room being small any feeling of spaceyness could go a long way. progress could still be made.
first day back at work after the week-long break. nothing too much eventful, but stuff coming in from one of the suppliers included the prettiest little xmas ornament things, plasticky really, white, but they have this opalescent coating, four different options and one of them is this set of 4 little icicles, i'm sooooo tempted to get like. 3 of those. pretty cheap too... (But Somebody Out There Made These Still.)
also, currently the walks to and from just about coincide with sunrise and sunset. the views can be very pretty...
look at this guy...
i'd go on a little about how i'm a little bit[citation needed] obsessed sometimes with a particular pic of oli xl (that i had to place before this bit of text in the end cos of float stupidity i cant bother to figure out) but i get shy hahaha - partly because it's a selfie from his insta story from some months back which, though i think it's in his highlights at the moment, i would not feel entirely comfy hosting on here hahah. but like. wtf it's so hot, the pic. he gotta fucking know that. unfair.
well actually - okay i spent a bit of time (enabling insta app on my phone and disabling it right after but also) digging the pic out via the highlights, it's still there, and. yeah. less hot-mess alt text may commence sometime later when its not literal half quarter to 1am. i already spent a lil stupid amount of time floating that shit. all in the name of, uh. looooooooook.
also no im not putting this in oliponders that shit is indexed by the way too much seeing googly eye. but at this point maybe this shit could eventually be too. almost every time i oliponder on this site i think to myself hi oli if you ever see this?
i'm in another ebb with listening to music, i think.
lately ive been listening to ambience sounds via some noise app or other... partial towards nighttime ambience sounds, some water sounds more quietly, and sometimes brown-noise-adjacent stuff to drown out other stupid noises from around me. and this app i use right now has wind chimes in its choices too which is quite nice too, more on the background of that...
OKAY it's fucking 1am good night
thu, oct 10 ~ 2pm
been wanting to write in here lowkey, but manage to forget what ive precisely wanted to write about lol, my life is mostly much of same-old same-old and it feels like there's no point to write about most of that !!
got my week-long workbreak coming up real soon. suppose it'll mostly be a turned-inward type break, have no specific plans for it, except maybe, if i order anything from ikea (the new fucken bee and otter plushies.. etc. set of bed sheets, maybe lil carpet, maybe lil hanging closet-organizer thing...), fetching the order from a couple towns over cos way cheaper than having that shit delivered, fucking homophobic delivery costs even if i were not to order anything heavier and furniture-y.
turned-inward type break, maybe gonna try to clean out a bit (more) of my surroundings. and rest my head, from being way too online, or at least way too aimlessly online. possible annoying menstrual cycle overlap too, so maybe it's for the better i have no travel plans for this break!! (funnily enough on the prior two october workbreaks i caught oli xl do a set both times, but this time that'll be a little later ha)
been tweaking at my site most of noon, want to go to the local spa and sauna center a little later, got paid yesterday and all, and last i went was a little over a couple months ago so why not. wanna avoid the weekend entry fee (20ā¬ as opposed to 12ā¬, though the outdoor saunas only open during weekend but i don't mind not having the opportunity for those) or i'd go on saturday after work or something. also wanna avoid going during my impending period !! haha
sun, sept 29 ~ 7pm
im in this annoying limbo of not having much of substance to do online but not having much of spare mental energy to steer myself to doing more of substance offline yet.
went on a tiny trip to catch an event, bought a little chestnut-theme teddy bear at the tallinn airport dutyfree, fuckin 20ā¬ but really cute i couldn't not. deepest darkest secrets under thr chestnut hood (cutest little teddy ears), i said to a friend, and also a lil chestnut leaf cape. autumn companion. maybe club companion from now on too, least for the trips abroad, why not.
tue, sept 10 ~ 7:30pm
not seen my go-to drink-mix-ready cocoa powder in stock in the local grocery stores as of late, so today i bought some 100% cocoa powder to make my own mix, and also got some demerara sugar to mix it with in lieu of the usual white sugar. could be a fun experiment. i've got a stupid amount of groceries lately it feels like, some snacky, some less so. but maybe it feels sufficient, for now. got to calm down, lest i need to bust into my savings account prior to next payday.
the moon's been elusive too, not seen it for a while now though the sky's been largely clear and it should be in first quarter form now(ish). doesn't help that my room's window faces directly north so i'll only see the moon from it a little bit of the time of its whole cycle.
sun, sept 01 ~ 9pm
hey ~ been a quiet life still. though went to paavli club fest this weekend and it was good (gonna update the music event log sometime w specifics of who i saw. umru and evian christ were a couple of the highlights).
generally feeling like a wind-up toy in wait, and really subtractive in some sense still (but i'll get to the bottom of that one day!!! lightening the baggage...). currently feeling some indistinct sadness, trying to cozy up in my room before sleep to mellow that.
thu, aug 22 ~ 9:30pm
well it's been a While since i last wrote something here. i've not really felt enticed by the concept of writing about my days or thoughts or whatever this public-facingly lately for some reason or other, even tho it'd be nice to? maybe there's too much of a barrier between me and the way i currently write these (on my laptop). have had some cute times, and not so cute times, but mostly really just mundane times. in this stupid multiplicity of the world.
the dusk sky looks a little moody, cos of the clouds, but i'm not bothered to go outside to go look at it more directly. i think part of the moodiness of it is coming from the adjacent apartment building not being much lit up whatsoever (said apartment building also covers up the horizon smh). seems fewer clouds where the sun set than rest of sky, or rest of my view anyway.
i got new wireless earbuds the other day, a while after i'd lost my previous pair i still don't know where!! but i don't miss that pair, felt unwieldy in my ears, compared to these ones. i've mostly been listening to [redacted]...
still been going thru my stuff, digitally too (current focus has been on my tumblr archive), but i should probably finish up with my actual physical room first, or at least get near enough to finishing up with it? the amount of files i got are lowkey rather sprawling and i'd rather aim fuller attention to that shit i think. also, thinking about:
Iāve really been thinking about it, my most mundane and timid fantasy: To become good enough at folding paper cranes that there comes a sort of automacity to it, but without giving up the mindfulness of it.
(via vashti's diary, july 31 2024)
i ended up getting good enough at folding tiny cranes i can fold em pretty much blindly too, it's a very slippery slope to mindlessness!!!!!!!! i had,.. i'd estimate 6000 or so small little cranes, just in a box, out of sight, mostly mindless ones out of craving something to do with my hands in idle states mostly in high school and uni, ended up putting them in the recycling the other week. may they spread their energy thru whatever processes they've ended up thru. rather one mindful crane than a thousand mindless ones, though i guess i've had some type of dream or few come true all the same!
i once made 1000 tiny little cranes for a past huge fav music artist, more mindful ones cos i decorated/doodled on each of the little squares. moa pillar, russian electronic music lad, he's ended up relocating to london as of like last year, i wonder how many of the cranes i gave him actually made the journey š
i would not pull the same move on oli, i've got much more humbled by that whole thing haha, and i don't want to spam him with cranes or anything really. but nothing can beat the one headgeared crane i made tbh, for real the little helmet came out so effortlessly too, meant to be (as compared to a 2nd instance of it for eventual giving to ecco2k, i had to majorly readjust it once and it still came out wonkier than the initial instance haha)
(btw - i ended up fashioning a little antenna-looking thing to the cranehelmet after that particular picture... cos the go oli go single cover art has the helmet looking like it has a little antenna-looking thing too.
the cranehelmet's antenna-thing is a chop of a loose whisker of my cat's. make of this what you may, but a slight poeticness to it. my cat's never left town, in the now 18 years of her life, and there it's been, the bit of loose whisker of hers, traversing.)
tue, july 16 ~ 11:45pm
went on a really long kick scooter ride just earlier tonight, got back a bit after 11pm, literally rode for a bit over an hour, with brief walking breaks throughout. my legs are going to really feel it tomorrow i think... but i had fun, just listening to music (mostly oli xl lmao; idk my brain processes music a bit differently in some sense while in motion as compared to being still?) and riding around.
intermittently taking in the surroundings while trying not to get too distracted to be able to keep balance. there were a lot of grasshoppers and that. and i managed to take in some particular smells, so it was cool. a couple areas had this interesting smell, i couldn't really pinpoint it, not that experienced for now with describing smells/scents. it wasn't really a bad smell, but wasn't something to write home about either. mild woodiness to it but not quite? i guess it's the unknownness that made it stick to my mind.
i've been attaching little dangly bits to my light-up hat-wings, all ear-ring-esque, with the idea that i don't have my ears pierced at all so the little hat-wings are the next best thing to attach things to. could do some really cool stuff with this, i got a little of a couple types of wee chains i could attach too and all. and if i wanted to i could fashion lil crochet chains from thread, with beads for weight (got this thought just now). i'll add pics of that to there sometime, maybe once i've developed this general idea some further!
fri, july 12 ~ 11am
rainy morning, potentially lazy day. first full day of my period lowkey torturing me, but i'm trucking on, mostly the discomfort really and not so much the pain.
been going thru more of my stuff, have had the heart this time around to toss a bunch of paperstuff, old workbooks n otherwise studyrelated papers n that, that i had tucked away into some box out of sight. whats the damn point!
but also, relocated a gem from my 3rd grade english workbook (first year of formally learning it in school) - there was some exercise where one had to either write 'yes, i am' or 'no, i am not' to simple questions. and then,
are you a girl? - yes, i am not
lmaoooooooooooooo 10-year-old me was ahead of her time (this was approx late 2006)
sun, july 07 ~ 8pm + 10pm
went on a longer walk yesterday after getting pizza from a local place, and bought an orange-lemon sorbet (on stick) from a grocery store during the walk. started thinking about the sorbet just now, maybe even craving another of it.... i dunno. do i lean into this? i'm not usually into any citrus fruits on their own much, but the sorbet's tanginess is living in my head rent-free right now.
i've been going thru my stuff irl the past couple days, the marie kondo way lmao cos i have the book and all and randomly picked it up again. just that ive been too half-assed abt it in the past, but no excuse rn as i'm on break. the most daunting part quantity-wise is next up - the miscellany. but for now i should change my bedsheets... true challenge, doing things tired
upd: visited two of the three closest grocery stores before closing, did not find the sorbet in either, but i had a brief convo with one of the ppl i see walking two particular dachshunds sometimes, i reckon a woman in late 30s early 40s idk, so i was pleasantly surprised when she asked me if theres any lgbt communities in my hometown (prefacing with "this may be stupid to ask" š & in ref to my gayass fit), sayin she sees nonbinary (-seeming?) folks around sometimes. i'd like to know too!! could prob be a stressful undertaking to host some such, i have the occasional boy (it's always some boy unfortunately... from groups of at least 2) yelling HOMO or GAY or (estonian rough equiv of) FAG at my gayass pants whenever i wear such, think they wouldnt hesitate to deface attempts for these. still worth a thought at the least though. as for the sorbet, i will expand my search tomorrow.
thu, june 06 ~ 7am
list of things
- life / life-maintenance tiring me out a bit, but also im in the midst of like 4 workdays in a row (2 done, 2 to go) which is also tiring me out a bit, esp if im w the summer-worker cos i dont like being in the role of Telling Others What To Do, i prefer to do something (reasonable) that ive been told to do, or to just fuck around.
- but still been discovering new music more, despite the mild mental tiredness. trying to figure out what to keep around for further rotation. learning to skip things i dont more fully jive with, life's short
- need to go to bed earlier tonight, been getting like 5 full hours of sleep at night...
- on a related note, looking forward to my 2-week workbreak from the end of the month
- i know i already put it in a place (two places) on my site, but i found a fun cute dancey remix of cartoon smile the other night, been listening to it a bunch at times but i dont want to overdo it. love the lil bass during the vocal bits.
- a couple nights ago i listened to original cartoon smile from my old mp3 player before sleep, it didnt resonate fully but that's ok cos that'll happen sometimes, ebb n flow. some people might say what do u even learn about (song) after (obscene amount of listens) and what if its about what i learn about myself too. sometimes i will merely think about the tune and that will suffice too
- 2 slices of toast w honey and a cold cocoa for breakfast
- yesterday i lingered at the stream for some time while walking home, looking at the dragonflies flittering about, etc. there were a lil bunch of these beautiful dark blue ones, today i saw some of em spread/stretch their wings while at rest on the reeds and it was a lowkey beautiful sight in the sun. the more whimsy during a walk, the better
wed, may 29 ~ 3pm-5pm
more on listening (or not!) [semi-rambly?]
first of all im gonna slightly-more-immortalize this from the neocities feedchurn, to muse a bit more on after:
me:
rly appreciate ur mentions of i suppose the stripping away of listening to music, speaks to me on some level but moreso from me being so so overwhelmed by the sheer intensity of the world; maybe u saw my notebook blurb touching upon it a bit but kinda wanna write about my angles on that a lil more... maybe i ought to have a little pause with it too !! cleanse the palate.
vashti (line breaks my own):
I appreciate you mentioning me in your diary! I am in a similar mindspace (headspace + mindset?) as you. Iāve really been trying to find quiet & have been really selective with what I watch / listen to.(i have my two-week-long workbreak coming up in a month, gonna entertain that thought... unless somehow the yet-upcoming oli xl album is out by then š¤£ just that i've been waiting for that so so expeditiously for the past 2-3 years!!)Iāve also rejected the concept of background noise: If I put something on, then I am going to pay attention to it. I realized a while ago, beyond my āstripping away of listening to music,ā that Iāve been seeking distraction, or just anti-boredom, but itās good to be bored. Once you get out & start looking at it from the outside, you wonder how you were able to live like that, with constant noise.
In I guess a straightforward or simple way, my mood has been better & while I have trouble with being overstimulated, it hasnāt been as bad as it used to. I think my tolerance of external noises, as in noise that I have not chosen like music, has built itself up, which is strange, because the whole world seems like a much fuller, louder place. In regards to music specifically, itās given me a deeper appreciation for it. Iāve been cutting away & getting rid of a lot of things in my life these past few months, but music has by far been the hardest.
Two things inspired me to do it, well, prompted me to do it rather, (itās very in line with how Iāve been living lately):
- One day I was playing my Switch & had a stream on in the background & realized that I had no idea what was being said in the stream, as in I completely cut it out. I wondered why I put it on in the first place.
- Last year I watched Portrait de la jeune fille en feu & while I donāt like the movie at all, thereās this one scene that Iād found really impactful, two actually:
In one of the scenes, a young woman says she misses the nunnery because at least at the nunnery there was music. The idea that you would have to go seek out music back in the day was completely foreign to me, in that Iād never considered it because music is just that ubiquitous.
In the other scene, I felt emotionally impacted & could not figure out why, because I did not enjoy the story or its portrayal of romance; it was because it was the only instance of music in an otherwise music-less film. It made me consider how maybe my constant exposure to music was dulling its impact. I think this is part of why we just love to find new songs, because it hasnāt been trampled under our dancing feet into the ground yet.Beyond that, I suppose I have philosophical or spiritual motivations, but even if you donāt have those, I would really recommend not listening to any music. Even if itās just for a week. Donāt wear any headphones as you go about your day. No TV or Youtube in the background of your life. No music. & just see how full the world is.
me:
yea i do have to have a lil bit of radio/music going on at work cos itd be awkward without! but fortunately have full aux command there and some time back a customer (older man) told me to turn it down so he could hear while calling some1, which i did ofc, and it made me think to myself "ooh....its better this way actually" so ive just simply been puttin it on quieter... fr i gotta notebook bout all this more deeply
on music as distraction / weapon against boredom
true! but at the same time sometimes music is a shield for me against sounds that trigger my misophonia to at least some extent (though mostly at home when parents are there, or otherwise in places with people)... or sometimes the jumpstarter to the bugged car that my brain is, but it's a really thin line sometimes between getting it rolling re doing stuff and getting distracted by the music. even if i were not to listen to anything at my own will, i appreciate the energy of earbuds in my pocket (with either my phone or my mp3 player. preferably the latter really, the phone's presence can be overwhelming). definitely as coping mechanism of some sorts.
i used to listen to music on walks to + from work (and uni before that too), but i somehow seamlessly (mostly) stopped doing that from some point on, sometime last year, wanting to focus on the sounds on the surroundings more... definitely less of overstimulation, between this and having the radio on more quietly at work.
(now if i were brave enough to take... i'm not sure whether a scalpel or a butcher's knife, or both, to some of my online-existence habits, it would be even more of thwarted overstimulation + sources of mental stuckness! but that's a whole other topic)
on new music vs familiar music, for me
the new music finding part made me think of this bit from i think it was valede kataloog / inglise aed by tƵnu Ƶnnepalu, page 356 originally and im not sure the book's been translated to english, so have to make do with my own (+ original for comparison):
Regent Park is already familiar to me. That I know how to navigate there doesn't make me proud anymore. As an autistic person I love familiar places. New ones make me anxious, though they do also excite. But familiar ones always excite me more.
Regent Park on mulle juba tuttav. Et ma seal liikuda oskan, see mind enam uhkeks ei tee. Autistina armastan tuttavaid paiku. Uued ajavad Ƥrevusse, tekitavad Ƥngistust, kuigi ka erutavad. Aga tuttavad erutavad alati rohkem.
i think i have something similar going on with music! though not so much anxiety as just overwhelm, as there's so so much music out there. plus how else do i get so so much mileage out of things familiar to me sometimes. need my homesteads, in some situations. plus the whole well-documented case i have with cartoon smile by oli xl :,) the comfort of that song means the world to me genuinely, nothing else hits the same. nothing else. though also at this point even if i were to go longer stretches between listening to that song its energy is still embedded really deep within me for the time being, so.
(funnily enough i've been listening to my recording from last weekend of oli xl's remix of tammy lucas' is it good to you acapella on loop while working on this whole writing. it does say something about me for that occasion to have been my 10th time catching oli dj, what with him having his little go-to tunes across sets, this remix being one of them though mostly in the '22 sets... i digress!)
on the impact of music in its ubiquity, and in the age of surveillance
true about the constant exposure dulling its impact possibly! and there's definitely some thinking to also be done about spotify's playlist-shilling and whatnot that i feel defiance against, maybe because of feeling general defiance against spotify on several levels, but others have written better about its various levels of bullshit than i would.
also there's some opposition going on within me between the "uses last.fm for accurate listening stats to look back on" part and the "quite defiant against surveillance" part, with some chiming-in from the "i want to get more mileage from my old mp3 player" part (only applicable in summertime, regular AAA batteries too weak in the cold), that i haven't really fully explored yet!
though on the one hand it's nice to have the last.fm usage streamline ways of sharing music with others sometimes, especially on discord via the bots, and connection with others is one of the aspects of music i deeply appreciate (via this, and otherwise bonding with fellow fans of stuff i enjoy, and via going to events), and also it's a helpful tool in refinding things i used to find nice and listen actively but have forgotten about! but on the other hand i think it's causing some brainrot for me in its current form...
i think it's mainly the fact my last.fm is just out there for others to see. i've entertained the thought of figuring out some way to track my listening more locally, but the old-mp3-player-appreciator part of me is like "psssst do you even NEED to track that shit accurately? who cares? it's all gonna be in dust (or become e-waste) one day, don't stress yourself like that. can just have your last.fm be partially accurate, and/or just write about your listening. who cares." and honestly i think they have a point. embrace the imperfections!
and this also feeds a bit into the topics in 'unquantified' by nomasters which i touched upon in my feb 7 '24 entry.
okay i think i've run out of brain juice to write any more about this. think this suffices.
unrelated list of things:
- yesterday upon coming back home from work + post-work grocery store trip, i lingered a bit to pet a really friendly orange tabby cat, and then proceeded to get caught by the rain for the rest of the way home, pretty intensely at points
- the scratches on my knees and palm from the kick scooter fall have all healed enough by now not to need constant bandaging anymore which is nice
- today a day off, but it's forecasting rain for some of today (and has actually rained too) and also my limbs are a bit sore when moving, so no riding today i think
- felt really stuck and really sad a couple evenings ago... really do have to shift some stuff about how i spend my energy.
- eleventy sometimes leaves stray empty paragraphs in my janky hybrid markdown-html files and it slightly annoys me! i'm mildly familiar with python so i've been eyeing at makesite... but for now even that may be too much work for me, but might be charming to experiment with it someday, or maybe even experiment with it for something else and not this. or another option would be to straight-up have the files for this site as html for a bit more control haha
- sometimes when chilling somewhere indoors i have the thought of "everything in this space has been made and/or handled by someone" and it kind of overwhelms me
tue, may 21 ~ 10:30-11pm
some of vashti's diary's midmay entries speaking with me a little today in particular, after a little catch-up read with the entries.
for one the stopping listening to music and all that, think i've ebbed rather close to that but i don't quite want to entirely quit doing it for the time being ! just be much much more mindful with it. but i've been in a really reductive mood w some of my online existence, on the flipside... tearing down some of my insta, tearing down some of my tumblr (publicly anyway, cos i have an archive). wanting to really go in on going thru my files, clean the unnecessary gunk out.
i have an are.na block from user rosemary, this block, on/as my desktop wallpaper:
i want my computer to be like a cutting boardā
i use it to chop things up so they can move on to the next step of cooking. waste to the compost, food to a vessel. sometimes it has beet stains, but i wash it off, they come out, and i prop it up to dry and start from a clean slate.
my files, if theyāre carrots or chard, canāt stay on the cutting board forever (and it gets crowded fast). iāll saute or roast, or maybe ferment, and eat them, cuz they wonāt do me much good otherwise. maybe iāll have leftovers for a few days, maybe iāll get some more next week, or maybe their season will pass. ideally, i or others would consume my digital ingredients while theyāre still fresh, and then they would be gone. if i really need a record, i can put it on paper.
i'm trying to let it inform how i use my computer more, or at least parts thereof.
and, "Rather than something above, I think [the soul]ās something below, something subterranean, something that you venture into, something dark & something within." (from vashti's may 15 soul/spirit conclusions) -- soul ~ soil :-)
also somehow rly enamored w train window spinstar phrase from the selkies exchange screenshot from may 12 in the diary
i met this friendly cat with the sweetest tiniest little meows on my way home from work today... and a more timid orange cat, the two briefly sniffed at each other's faces and then parted ways again. something about this spun me out into some existential sadness, probably over the transience of everything really... all the same i did still manage to clean the cat litter box at home, and cook myself some pasta, despite the sadness.
need to take better care of myself in some aspects...
tentative statement on being able to catch oli xl at kwia again this saturday, if his insta story has no typos re it being on saturday or anything :-] with a lil opener person (meana, @meana_mina on insta) this time that im entirely unfamiliar with but still looking forward to. i have the sat off cos of being at an event in stockholm on fri (year0001 rift, with mechatok+torus etc), and sundays i have off by default with this job, soooo... (will make sure to take sufficient enough cash-euros w me this time lol, the damn place only takes cash on entry much as i know)
it feels really really ridiculous to ball like this while the world is proverbially and partly maybe literally up in flames. but the balling is out of some maybe-selfish i live too close to russia and what if in future [...], and life's too short and fragile, and the universe is an absurd fuckign open sandbox. long as i overall leave the world a kinder place than it was before me...
...if im feisty enough i may be like "feel free to sneak in cartoon smile to the set this time if u want to" this time... it's a bit of a dream, for me, genuinely, to hear it in that context in particular. was too sleepy last (first) time i caught oli in that venue, only after he'd powered down the deck was i like "if i'd been feisty enough i would've requested cartoon smile" or smth, he replied "maybe next time". maybe next time...
sat, may 11 ~ 10pm
list of things, in no particular order
- i bought a manual kick scooter the other day, from the local reuse centre, for just 25ā¬ which isnt bad (the particular kick scooter has apparently gone for 100+ or so new/retail lol; it seems decent, seems no flaws function-wise, merely looks worn out but i don't mind that. and it's foldable and rather light!). nice enough intermediate step toward learning to ride a bike one day, can learn to balance more confidently on these things too. have had one trial run yet, on some stretch of sidewalk at the edge of town, but it was really nice already. been chilly but looking forward to more of befriending it
- my mom just said theyre gonna go and have bbq at the gardenplot after church tomorrow, might be nice
- work tired me out today somehow, succumbed to the beanbag for a nap for a while after... but also i got like 5 something hours of sleep last night and a bare 3 the night prior, so... yeah
- iglooghost's new album is nice, have given a few whirls to it. my brain cartwheels at the oli xl feature on flux cocoon :-D but yeah in general it goes hard
- mmmm.. 2 days off up next, will see what to do with them. think i'll continue to (i guess slowly) go thru my things, spring clean. i have this list written down of specific things to do that're spring-cleaning-coded really. both for physical realm and digital realm. but also hopefully get around to another lil trial run with the kick scooter hehe
- i missed last night's aurora, think the peak mightve been while i was asleep anyway, cos when i was looking at the lil crescent moon around midnight i didn't notice any. i heard the stuff still goin on for a bit more (rip to some systems hope those're being handled okay) so there might be more tonight, but i can't lie i'm quite sleepy still, and the sky still gonna be light for some time more even while the sun has set (i love twilight being long in here tho)
tue, apr 30 ~ 11pm
some list of things, in no particular order
- continuing a bit to clean up / incinerate a lot of my older tumblr reblogs (after having archived the whole thing, a little while back). i dont know. feels like an unwieldy weight. it's not the first time ive incinerated older reblogs
- dreamt of oli xl's site again, either last night or the night before. 5th time ever now.
- this past sunday i went on a really really long walk (and to just hang out outside) in the pleasant weather, it was warm and sunny. headed out at around 12pm, got back home after 7.5 hours. i left my phone home, merely took my old mp3 player and a couple of spare batteries for it with me (and also my card), it felt nice. some things from the walk
- larger round iridescent-coated grave lantern next to a tree at the side of a small road leading into a forested area, with mediumsize rocks around it in a halfcircle
- a small creek glistening in the sun thru the trees
- at least 5 different kinds of butterfly
- looking at a beetle on my hand up close, a small one and with a blue sheen. there were plenty of such flying about
- two girls on an e-scooter passed me by on the forest road at one point, they were singing along to something. cute
- just sitting at a tiny beachstrip of a larger lake and simply eating an apple (from the grocery store, polish import, idared cultivar, 0.11ā¬, i liked the flavour). calm waters, mostly sunny with gorgeous clouds
- i listened thru rogue intruder soul enhancer by oli xl like 3 times during the walk, with some breathing room around each listen for other stuff. round 12:15pm, round 3pm, round 6pm.
- birdsong, and i think i heard common cranes at one point
- started feeling moderately overcooked yesterday, i guess partly as a result of the mild brain reset the long walk did. overcooked from how i exist online (overwhelmed, need to scale back still. left a few discord servers), and other stuff. have to be careful with what i do, otherwise it feels like burnout imminent.
- tomorrow a day off. we'll see. my parents are out of town for a couple days atm, so it's nice to be able to exist on my own for a bit, in relative peace. think i'll go to bed and try get up earlyish tomorrow to do stuff (at home i guess, would bring stuff to the reuse centre but it might be closed cos may 1st. plus check on the parents' garden). was gonna have thurs off too but some plans changed in the sched, smh. least it's light for longer in the evening at this time of year.
tue, apr 23 ~ 9pm
bought a whole 500gram thing of unsliced unflavored (merely salted) bacon today, wild level of physicality in slicing it up myself, aware that this is a chunk of a Once Living Being. meat from the side of a pig. but it feels like a more respectful form of meat in some sense, than some others i like texture-wise (some just being Undefined Blended Meatstuff really haha). hopefully this pig had a kind enough life
adjacently thinking about how some estonian company thing dedicated to checking the efficiency of animal husbandry publishes monthly statistics about the names of dairy cows, alphabetically and by frequency (for names upon 10 (registered i guess) cows or more). it's only in estonian, but the dairy cow name stats are within here. my first name is on the first page frequency-wise which is lowkey wild. but some of the names are funny. 28 dairy cows named volvo! (naturally i currently also check for oli and surely enough there's 14 as of april 1st. which i apparently also checked a year ago as per dm-s with bestie and it was 14 then too lol, 27 volvo then tho)
my parents have this semidomesticated crow that dwells at their house/gardenplot for a longer while now, whom they've named viktor. they give the crow foodstuffs pretty frequently, and the crow occasionally chases away herons and such (some of which could otherwise moderately endanger the pond fish). pretty cute, the vague symbiosis of some kind, and the having named the crow.
kind of feeling like writing down about the recent trips, so:
march 28-29 helsinki club zero nite trip highlights (non-chronological) + april 4-8 london trance party + amsterdam patrick wolf show trip highlights (also non-chrono)
-> both moved to events log
okay i think that's all for now... it's almost 10pm now, i ought to prep for bed soon.
thu, apr 18 ~ 9pm
the aforementioned trip went nicely, the workbreaktime trip went overall nicely too, i'm barely in the mood to write about anything cos i'm a bit under the weather right now from everything feeling so fucking arbitrary and life seeming so fragile sometimes and all that. it'll pass, maybe i'll write more another time, maybe about those too, or maybe not. for now feeling a bit reclusive.
the sun has peeked out from the clouds two evenings in a row so i've had sunny walks after work these past couple of days, a bit of a morale boost. heavily feel like i need to rearrange my priorities. but i did back up my 2024 pics onto my laptop the other day, tho not sorted most of them yet (just the ones from the trips into their own folders).
wed, mar 27 ~ 10pm
helsinki music event trip tomorrow, and i'm rather excited. i haven't even packed yet though, i want to pack some food with me (maybe sandwichstuffs), and i might grab either my crochet project (improvising a lil standalone hood from some kinda cool yarn. least i have foldable scissors in my wallet so there's no worry with those) or a book or two i have from the library with me so i would advance on them during the transiting there or back, if i'm not napping or enjoying the window views. need to check in online to the hostel too... maybe on the bus tomorrow, when i got both my phone and my wallet at hand.
might go for the crochet project to go, least i can sort of do that and gazing out the window a little more simultaneously than reading, though might still grab one of the books with me too, maybe one of the ones i haven't started yet. i got 3 books from the radio+telecomms section last time i was there, cos i had randomly sauntered to that section haha, 2 books on the history of estonian telecomms (one across 100 years, the other focusing on 2000-2020), and one book with selected transcribed interviews from a radio show (hosting those of interviews between parent-and-child known estonian people).
i have to clean my room and/or put some of my non-child-friendly clutter away before leaving, have halfbro ft wife and 2 kids comin by tomorrow thru saturday, the timing is really funny, 2nd time in a row this (i.e. me being away for their visit) has happened with them !! maybe i'll peruse the inside of my bed-box honestly, for the time being it could work.
my shoulder let up by yesterday evening fortunately, slightly overexerted my back though at work, but it's mostly let up too now with some rest, which is good... my cat's been sleeping on my lap for the past couple hours i think, should get up and pack and clean and go to sleep, i leave rather early tomorrow.
think i might simply add notebook updates into the changelog in post, whenever updating other shit on the site. could be an ok approach for that.
mon, mar 25 ~ 9:30-10:30pm
been out of it much of today, my right shoulder been giving me pain w some movements today, mustve pulled it, and i also slept badly, only fell asleep around 1am if not later, and my cat woke up my 6th sense of knowing when shes going to throw up at fucking 5am, had to quickly get her off the windowsill, ended up breaking a few of the star-shaped glass ornaments i had hanging at my window (3 of 12). though maybe the broken ones have some sort of value to them too... they all just got one corner each shattered off them. but i feel like i must've pulled my shoulder then too. had a bit of a terrible time some of today at work, and it got me on edge emotionally in the evening, that and some other shit. i only have enough energy for a notebook blurb tonight in lieu of more intricate site updates, so everything today will go here, and then i will go to sleep.
omw home from work i stopped by the stream running thru town, at a part where theres some rocks in it and a lil water cascade, over the rocks. listened for some bit. i'd been feeling on edge from the aforementioned shoulder pain, and it kind of trudging up some emotional wounds in me for some reason too. felt earlier like venting about those in here too, but not for now... but, everything felt (feels) so absurd, like, what all this bullshit for. wanted to cry, opted for shedding a few tears.
(snip)
okay that's all. good night.
tue, mar 12 ~ 10pm
i've been listening to ribbon bone by instupendo and oli xl all evening on loop (on my old mp3 player, out of inertia really. so no lastfm scrobbles from this). it's one of those evenings. mostly the silk chaser version, the one supposed to be on oli's eventual album... calculated off of my last.fm scrobbles that i've heard oli say pay attention at least 39 thousand times. yeah ive listened to the tune over 1500 times combined. but, do i fuckin pay attention. (the phrase repeats 24 times in silk chaser ver, 26 in chalk dancer, the one on instupendo's love power a-to-z album. at least if i counted correctly. im just in some flow a lot of the time when listening to oli and adjacent)
have mostly been flowing in the stupid mundaneity a lot of the time lately, haven't really felt the need to blurb about much publicly. got plans for the site tho, eventually will deal w em...!!
i've been selectively deleting a big bulk of my older tumblr posts/reblogs, after having archived the posts a couple weeks back. not solely but still largely because i've kind of just been passively wondering about how i'd wanna continue existing online. (but also did find the exact post im referring to whenever i go like historical times, and wtf do i do ... laundry, barely. because i really do still be doing laundry, barely...)
this blurb of thoughts from kinluwi tapping a lil further into some of the aspects of the wondering. so real. (also trawling thru the links the person got in the link recs page n damn i gotta read the should data expire thing in full. fuck it, maybe once ive crawled to bed n before i sleep)
relatedly, this post bout perusing social media as mere websites that i've kept around as link for a longer while now has kind of silently prodded me to currently alternate between being logged on into nothing of such sort on my phone and logging in and out of discord and instagram in particular on there... and i mean theres plenty other writing out there about this typa shit.
but it's kind of a relieving thing to sorta have stopped expecting myself to get back to people or things online immediately. helps that like all of the online friends i have, and even my semi-irl bestie and other semi-irl friends, seem to be the same way at least in relation to me for plenty reasons (busy life, limited energy, timezones, whatever). shoutout.
wed, feb 28 ~ 10pm
in the midst of another wall of workdays, but tomorrow the last one for the week and i'll be off early too - and the forecast for the weekend seems pleasant. variably cloudy into sunny. there's a gallery night on friday evening in adjacent city, i'm still wondering if i'll have the energy to go. but do want to see my friends of there too, and banger art, and i have the whole longer weekend off so i would actually have time to explore too this time! think i will consult myself, and the friends, tomorrow after work.
seen this opinionpiece from may 2022 from a retweet - the future is post-western by yannick giovanni marshall
felt, though im sitting within circumstances where there's some sort of west vs russia thing going on, which is a fucking doozy to say the least. and my brain currently too small, smooth and blended to deeply ponder on some alternative existence where nationality n such shit wouldn't have as deepseated an implicit influence on identity and whatnot, in the context of this day and age, and feel like it might sadly be too idealistic for the time being, so the possible secret third thing beyond the two feels beyond reach, for now.
stupidly historical times, and anyway i basically do laundry, barely. i would probably still do laundry, barely, in any type of local situation, west or russia or secret third thing. but i guess i can do my part in some small ways nonetheless for the world to be a kinder place, though i'm just some mundane person with barely an activist bone in my body, plus i live slightly unfeasibly far from major cities, but even thru everyday choices...
ive got to put anna's archive somewhere into my links section. but i wanna work on the page properly and do several additions at once, if i were to. have pulled it up once in the past to get a book pdf, and pulled it up now to get a book pdf too.
anyway - visited my closest friend the past weekend for their bday, and their mom, being some1 who deals w psychology stuff as job, has some small bunch of suchlike books, and i picked out the estonian translation of living untethered: beyond the human predicament from a small pile and skimmed thru much of it, didn't have enough time for all of it tho, so i grabbed the eng pdf for it now, hence the mention. something to ponder about.
my hands and arms feel weirdly heavy right now, but maybe it's from my stupid posture. it's an interesting sensation though...
wed, feb 21 ~ 10:30pm
my mental state's been in a bit of a roller coaster today. some stuff overwhelmed me today, sensorily and socially. but also had a cute chat w some1 online today, a highlight of the day.
also: u ever end up being extremely normal over some absolute banger pic or other of ur fav music artist in, of all places, the dms of a friend that has a crush on u. sorry im just a little bit obsessed right now, not gonna crosspost the pic in question cos it's in an insta story/highlight, but. Yea. okay i'm normal. just needed to say this. it's not even the first time, and the friend is entirely fine with this (and has admired too š¤£)
fri, feb 16 ~ 10pm
i found a disposable vape on the ground today, in the middle of some snow and not even on a sidewalk directly, though near one. 30% juice and 20% battery, or the other way around, i'm too lazy to check. some berry mix flavour. i fucked around (picked it up) and found out (had a puff). i dont care to vape or smoke or anything as such, and will continue not to care (fortunately contented enough w my life not to feel a pull towards such) - nonetheless this was kind of interesting, and i do like the flavour.
sorry to whoever lost their vape but i guess its mine now til it runs out one day in the probably further future š
frills posted a little life in pictures type thing in her blog today and i find the sheer compression + the fact the pics are rendered from base64 so cool. and this kind of spurred me to finally properly initiate my own little observations corner, though without the base64 haa!! i had been sitting on this idea for a while now, weeks maybe, glad to finally have something more tangible for that.
also oh! oh!!!! oh! ! oh also i saw yesterday that club zero - helsinki-based event series etc thing, i've gone to a couple of their nights - announced their next nite for end of next month and it has oli xl in the lineup!!!!!! and also quite a banger lineup in general. but my brain just straight going like Oli, Holy Shit (i say while this'll be my 9th time catching him dj hahahh oops), i genuinely got so hyped at the post. looking forward!!
mon, feb 12 ~ 10pm
been thinking about this bit from this recent vegyn interview:
He does interviews rarely and performs live even less. The few social media channels he has are largely inactive.
āI just donāt want to invite strangers into my life in that way,ā Thornalley shrugs.
this way of putting that... yea
need to slip further into mental noise reduction mode, i've been slipping away from that a bit... i've been deeply clearing out my older insta likes, and saved posts, and story archives. will all that even matter in the end? i doubt. would it be easier to gut the acc entirely and start anew? probably! but i want to be selective about what to gut instead of just tossing it all away, idk. plus theres some banger shit in my saved stuff (within the subcategories of stuff i got) i'd wanna keep around maybe.
and also some discourse i spot online sometimes (doesnt matter where. insta tw*tter disc what-have-you) is over the most inane shit
whats it called when u fiddle w a headphone jack or whatever plugged in in a way that kind of drops out some of the sound in a certain position (sometimes cuts out the vox and/or other bits and/or whatever) bc sometimes it can b sick as fuck. havent bothered to go on some unclear wording nonsense search sesh about it haha but ive been passively curious for years really, about the mechanisms behind this, suspect the contacts might b to do w it in part but still like how... maybe one day i'll really fuck around and find out.
wed, feb 07 ~ 5:30-6pm
today i got my hands on the beanbag chair i ordered last week, it's some half-loungey type one with lil flaps of fabric that u can cocoon in and partly zip up. i'd been wanting a cozy sitting situation into the free corner of my room for a good while, considered hanging chairs for a while but the floor stands are too ridiculoudly large for such and i don't trust the wall or ceiling to hold that well, so, beanbag it is in the end.
and the cat just arrived to the premises for a short while as i was typing this too - gonna be a bit fun to see how she might take to this over time.
'unquantified' by nomasters - been quietly rolling this writing around in my head, and a few of the other ones of theirs, 'dumber phone' and 'nonparticipation' in particular
re 'unquantified': the mi band i have is still pretty useful in other respects - timer for cooking purposes, notifs at times, wakeup alarm and reminder vibrations (would forget to water my lil orchid or to attend to the radio shows i'd wanna attend to live otherwise and i mightnt always be at my phone haha) - i barely pay mind to the stepcount anyway and dont have that directly on display on it... and the sleep stats are sometimes inaccurate (thinks im asleep while ive been awake, sometimes). idk! did go like a week without the band in january tho and it was ok enough.
re the other two: i guess i'm halfway to having my smartphone be a dumbass, i do have the insta app currently (mostly to clear out archives rn) and log in and out of discord on the browser there. and do have one (1) standalone app game on it and it's pocket chao garden hahaha (plus logged in to flight rising on the browser hha); i guess part of why i'd wanna 'turn down the volume' on the stuff is some vague chronic overwhelm i've been feeling from being connected all the time !! so i've been trying to contain more/most of my online existence to my laptop... not ready for now to entirely cut myself off the socials, but containing them to the laptop on the most part might be alright too.
slept so hard last night in two parts, 9pm to 2:30am and then 6am to 12pm, i guess i really needed it... i like having two days off midweek, it's like saturday vol 1 for me right now. i had more stuff on my mind to write about yesterday, but needed a rest more than anything after work, so this'll do for now
at least i had a very nice dinner yesterday - the remainder of the fish sticks i had (7 of them), a whole carrot chopped up into lil sticks, with some sour cream based dip on the side, and a mug of cold cocoa. i'm so bad at eating fresh stuff especially in winter, so having something fresher included in mealtime for once is an improvement...
now to go figure out food for tonight. maybe something with eggs?
fri, jan 12 ~ 11pm
i got opera mini 4.1 working on my old nokia 2630 phone... now i can do very barebones browsing on it again just like in the days of yore - used to tweet off that thing back when it was my main phone, so from 2009 (when i made a twi acc) to like 2012
enjoy this:
thu, jan 11 ~ 8pm
still been an average life of either wake up, breakfast, work, dinner, pet cat, fuck around, sleep or on offdays wake up, fuck around, eat, [repeat as needed], rest, sleep
a bit of a fixation(?) on drilling thru my listening backlog, and i'm almost done(!) with the strictly-bandcamp bit of it (though i have some littered elsewhere that i could probably funnel into there too), has resulted in a slightly amusing view on my lastfm top artists chart this year of Oli XL Beacon Above The Rest for now, but i'll get around to savoring my other faves more too for sure
at work today i switched some stuff between places at the shop out of boredom, while i waited for my phone to charge after having checked out some things from the listening backlog via sneaky earbud... brought the grass seed bags closer to the other seedstuffs up front in place of handleless tool ends (tho i kept the rakes in place for now cos those make sense near grass seed bags), which i brought to the far back corner near tools with long handles (rakes, shovels snow and regular, outdoor brooms, etc)... the switchout idea was the manager's, to deal with after the xmas stuff is put away she said, but i was very bored, but yet to finalize the switchings cos now theres actually space to bring the broom/whatever handles to the far corner too, will simply need to clear out the corner a bit first... but readjusting the storage room tmrw feels a bit more urgent cos we have a whole pallet of sowing compost/soil coming in soon and need space for that lol
already lowkey look forward to the start-of-april 1.5-week workbreak tho for some reason (maybe general yearning for spring/summer...)
altho im gonna see mechatok in tallinn(!!!!!) in a couple weeks which is gonna be cooooooooool cos it's been a while since i actually last saw him dj (oct 2022). and a couple ppl i know via online are flying in for it from glasgow which is cool too :') cos usually it goes in the direction of flying out from smaller to larger places for events so its cute to b able to behold the opposite happening. i still need to look at bus tickets for to-fro tallinn tho - least no dire need for accomms cos the event is gonna last til morning and ill just sleep on the bus home (or maybe train+bus ? the venue's closer to the railway station)
somehow ive been in the mood of listening to ribbon bone (silk chaser ver in particular) by oli xl and instupendo on loop at times recently... something about it hitting different these days.
drop yr head from yr shoulders / focus, pay attention
bob is on my campsite in acnh today, i checked in the morning before work. and i don't think i have any lazy villagers right now... i got two normals [merengue and lily but i love em both] and two smugs [pietro and henry]. might try to get bob in but idk who id want to be replaced cos ive had pietro for ages [the only villager ive had for longer is teddy who was my very first one... :')] but henry is nice too... Will See!
very prompt upd: lol i forgot i have two big sister ones too [fuchsia and quinn] until bob asked about quinn and i dont mind that tbh. Bob Time
[2023]
sun, dec 31 ~ 9:30pm
so ive been chillin at the aforementioned closest friend's (parents') place since yesterday now and til tomorrow. it's nice for a change. played spirit island on tabletop sim w the friend til 4am yesterday (i did not know of the game prior), after some miscellaneous goofery
(i simply just wanted to be away from my home/parents' for a bit haha, and from the fireworks overwhelm tho who knows what the neighbors of hereabouts will do)
not been bothered to think deep on new year's stuff to write down about cos my head/eyes hurtin a bit from all the lookin at screen... i only know i yearn for the upcoming oli xl album and for the summer and for maybe learning to ride a bike finally (if i dont get intimidated by the learning curve)
tue, dec 26 ~ 1am
can't sleep rn. been feeling lonely much of the past day, and heavyhearted too for some of it now. living in some relatively peripheral area... and having to almost always be the one to reach out and not the one reached out to (wrt local friends), it's a bit tiring in a sense. i guess my mind being a bit dramatic rn or some shit idk. but im just lonely.
(gotta ask my closest friend what they doin on new yr's eve n if i could come over, cos theyre in the area rn)
sun, dec 24 ~ 6:30pm
some thought fragments
- wasnt stressful this year around, most of the familybeing was yesterday, 3 of my 4 brothers came by, two w their significant others (the remaining one was at his wife's parents' presumably), one w a kid too. no gift shenanigans fortunately, cos not in my parents' spirit to fuck around with all that. simply tired me out a bit socially, i ended up sleeping like 11 hours or something
- need to cook gingerbreads from the remaining dough from a little over a month ago still haha, will see maybe sometime around now
- my period hit on fri/sat some days earlier than the expected bracket of days, the first day always annoying painwise but for me most of the time it's just annoying (i mostly use menstrual cup + reusable pads, but w the underwear i have the latter tend to ride up my butt whenever i walk more... i do need comfier underwear tbh), at least this means i won't have to deal with this around new year's
- continuing to go thru the bandcamp part of my listening backlog
- upside-down thermos jug on the kitchen counter; electric kettle and toaster having to alternate on sharing one outlet of the four in that area
- [blows raspberry prolongedly and unamusedly]
wed, dec 20 ~ 10am
for starters: currently listening (again; have known of it for a while) to this cursedly glitched remix of Ć¼le ilma by curly strings, the remix goes fucking hard ngl
the other weekend i went to check out a lil underground art fair thing in tartu, hosted by ajuokse, got some bunch of stickers, a print of this in a3 (Literally Perfect Addition To My Wall), a lil book that is for now a secret who-knows-when gift cos it is literally perfect for a certain fam member, the bottommost of these delightful things, some other bits and bobs... also went to see a fresh minidocumentary of this estonian band im a lil bit of a fan of, lonitseera, about how they recorded their xmas album they released like a month ago now haha, was a fun watch
now thinking about how to put my sticker collection onto my wall in a way that would not spend them - might probably put some tape behind each sticker or sheet twosidedly and just put em up like that. cos i have some really really really nice stickers and all
hopefully the xmastime this yr around wont be too stressful on me. genuinely mentally preparing for it lowkey.
sat, nov 25 ~ 11pm-12am
been a minute! where do i even start?
( mid-nov berlin travel log moved to events log )
as for since then, it's been properly snowy this week, and seems the snow will stick around, which is cute. might go sledding at some point this winter. today at work i got agitated at some points at the tiniest shit, likely cos of social exhaustion cos it was my 3rd workday in a row... at least i'll have sunday and monday off. as for the trips i think i will try to calm down with these, at least for the winter, try for cocoon mode.
thu, nov 16 ~ 11pm
had a cuter time tonight - the kids (steppaternal's daughter's two daughters, 7 and 8) came by today and i was tasked to decorate gingerbreads with em:
i might steal a few of them so i could give em to friends in berlin...
i should probably do a bit of preemptive packing for tomorrow before i go to bed, or at least make a list of things to take - i'll have like half an hour between getting home from work and leaving for the bus to airport. gonna have a nice time. i got a random window seat on one of my connecting flights so thats very nice too.
wed, nov 15 ~ 11pm
the satisfaction of having baked some gingerbreads...the lonely sadness of having had to do so on my own
though i've never asked for help in the direct process and with foodmaking stuffs i initiate i generally have preferred to do everything on my own mostly cos of having full control over things then, but i dont know, the gingerbread seshes just tire me out having to do everything myself, especially as of the recent couple or so years' bigger seshes... and my back hurts
dont even have the energy to pack any lunch
my neocities site's anniversary today, was gonna do some stuff (unrelatedly to it being the anni) for the site today, but the gingerbread stuff took up too much time today
on my walk home today it snowed so gently... it was sweet to see
at least i'll see friends this weekend
sun, nov 12 ~ 1pm
my parents installed a new sink+cabinet set in the bathroom the other day, some glossy-white-coated wood one, nice change from the raggedy old corner, and there's more space to store stuff decently now (my waterpik set fits properly now in the cabinet stuff!). but it's now got a funny contrast with the half-plastered wall - well i mean it is plastered, just that the colours arent consistent lol, theres this big shape on one of the walls that resembles a horse so one of my parents at one point just drew a face and mane on it a long while ago now... bathroom horse.
have been in the process of getting my room more clean... looks pretty okay on the most part already. had to put away the turntable to make space for the cyclamen pot i got for my birthday (didn't want to have it on top of the turntable) but i barely peruse the turntable anyway !! but did finally try my best to rip in all the locked grooves of the plz make it ruins locked grooves compilation yesterday, having my turntable on the floor temporarily...as good a surface as anything. need better record cleaning supplies tho, i straight took compressed air to the dust and hairs this time but need something anti-static for em...
fri, nov 03 ~ 9pm
have gone on walks along the lake after work the past couple days despite it having been nearly entirely night by the time my workday ended - but the sunset sky still been glowing really really slightly. mostly because it's been mostly clear the past couple of evenings, saw a lot of stars today in particular (the bit of lakeside i walk along is almost entirely unlit, only by the motion-sensor lights of the lakeside houses there), it was nice...
was setting out the xmas candles at work today, remembered one of the ones with decorative text n stuff havin it wrapped around the glass upside down - this one says it's the most wonderful time of the year or something, with decoration doodles around it - and this time i bought that particular one too. vanilla-scented, have it lit right now and it is indeed vanilla-scented.
i cant lie, part of the reason i felt more compelled this time mighta been cos of spotting oli xl havin upside down in a couple of his online profile bios for a while now (might be twitter and soundcloud, too lazy to check), unsure if as reference-extension of how the title of his track dnL refers to the discontinued 7up flavour or something else entirely.... either way it's fun (the phrase preceding that one, for a while, was get into character... felt that. sometimes we do be getting into character)
the upcoming steppaternal's daughter-and-grandkids visit has ended up overlapping with my upcoming berlin weekend trip (18th-20th) which is so fucking funny cos of the prior overlap with halfbro's fam's visit and my london tranceparty:live trip too!! but also what a shame lowkey w this one, but the kids will b able to catch sight of me before i go (they arrive the day before i leave) :*) and looking forward to making gingerbread dough, part for myself (to bring some to friends i'll be seeing again during the trip !) n part for them (to make gingerbreads from themselves :') tho i wont see the process of that), as well. but will do that once time draws closer.
mon, oct 30 ~ 4pm
have been slowly porting over my site to the eleventy workflow as per whiona's guide, tried figuring out a flexbox layout for the cartoon smile zine/shrine/whatnot and broke it (serving locally) in a couple rather funny ways as i edited:
and in general i couldn't really make it look the way i wanted (couldn't figure out how to least messily vertically center the text within the flex item divs without minorly breaking something or other) so i'll proceed to stay with the layout table method in the end cos that mightn't be the worst thing accessibility-wise...
mon, oct 23 ~ 11am
felt mentally slow and sad in the morning, though still managed to get a proper enough breakfast in (pancakes, bacon, cold cocoa), but couldn't rest very well...randomly woke up at 4am, checked my phone for a bit like a clown, and then couldn't properly fully sleep anymore til my 6:25 alarm SMH... and was a bit overwhelmed by having to go to work, but now it's much less so which is nice enough.
i've got to childproof my room a bit before going on the brief trip to catch tranceparty:live, think one of my halfbrothers is visiting with his fam around the same time, and one of my stepfather's daughters is coming to visit with her two kids in a couple of weeks - honestly i dread the former of these a bit more haha, the visits have tended to be a bit stressful, cos the one thing i bear worse than a screaming kid is a grownup yelling at a screaming kid, But ! on the other hand the latter fam visited this summer for the first time and i had a kinda cute time with them. only dread my reaction at em disturbin my peace in my room if i were to wanna rest instead or something hah
sat, oct 14 ~ 11am [utc+2]
had a cute time despite being rather underslept! everything went smoothly, though oli ended up being like 45min late lmao (was supposed to be on from 10pm) but played til 4am which is still nice, all-night enough, though still having had tons of time til my 1pm flight haha so i simply came to the airport to sleep a tiny bit. anyway! i think i (mentally) caught all the upcoming-album tracks he played tucked between the other stuff - have good feeling about that album based off this etc, really look forward to being able to spend time with it (plus the cute tune from the start of the ghent set in aug '22 is still alive too!!!) ! wish i woulda requested cartoon smile right when he wound down his set tho haha, wouldve been an amazing finale 2 me...but he was like "maybe next time" when i told him bout the intent. maybe one day (dont think he will at boiler room fest hahahaha), maybe even live...! who knows.
looked thru several grocery stores for the leibniz kunterbunt cookies in particular, only had luck when i was actually on my way to the venue and decided to drop by a nearby one on a whim which might say a lot hahaha
as for now i think i'll go pass security and then look for coke (The Drink Obviously) cos i'm really craving some, on top of the boringly starchy leftover fries ive still got...or should i wait til i'm in helsinki? i'll see how much the dutyfree price puts me off and act based on that. also it'll be my first time flying with finnair and seeing the helsinki airport, will see how it is but i always appreciate a benevolent new experience.
thu, oct 12 ~ 10am [utc+1]
yesterday i wedged another event onto friday inbetween the aforementioned two events. oli xl of course, allnight dj set, at a venue in berlin ive been wanting to visit, though reading its reviews on google maps has me a bit nervous! hopefully the door staff won't be ass... though i know someone who went to oli's first sesh of the little residency thing at the venue (this'll be the second, of three), could ask for how the vibes were on that night in particular and about some specifics - needa know if i can get by with card payments and if theres an ok place i can leave my whole backpack...
either way, staying at a pretty nice hostel in london right now and looking forward to vegyn tonight, even while having to tame the aforementioned nervousness a bit (and aforeimplied excitement..! last caught a set of oli's nearly a year ago). but for now i've got to eat some breakfast and then visit a nearby grocery store for some more food and hopefully some sort of prepaid sim card with a bit of data cos as i said the roaming cost would be outrageous (fuck u brexit as i specified hahaha - fucking ironic cos most of the uk phone plans i see have their data inclusive to eu fuckin hell)
sun, oct 08 ~ 8:30pm
yesterday after work i went to a fastfoodplace for a burger meal, then did a whole round with one of the town buses while really listening thru rogue intruder soul enhancer... felt very nice. tho i got really sleepy towards the end of the album (and the ride), was halfasleep for much of the last couple of tracks. then went home and proceeded to nap like almost 4 more hours lmao, but i shouldnt fuck up my sleep rhythm too much.
also my eyes feel spent from screentime lowkey, but i'd need to exert huge amounts of willpower not to simply fuck around online + maybe take more of a break from some places... though i did manage to sort through and organize one of my drawers today, which is i guess better than nothing haha, but i lowkey rly wanna clean much of my room before i go travelling from wednesday...! will see.
fri, oct 06 ~ 9:30pm
feel like writing about my day, at least somewhat...
wasnt really bothered to pack lunch for work today, discovered i was on my last pack of instant noodles within my at-work instantfoodstuffs stash (do have a couple of instant potatomash packets there still), just in time for the weeklong break starting after tomorrow(!), and i also ate currently the last of my cereal for breakfast hahaha (alongside the usual sandwiches, and a cup of cocoa)
mostly really just fucked around in there. bummed around on flight rising for some of it, and/or on discord. though i also did rearrange some stuff and stock some stuff... the manager dropped by at one point (shes on sick leave atm but able to work from next mon fortunately), bringing a pack of coffee beans, telling me to rest well during my break (and I Will For Sure).
was looking into js style toggle stuff for some of the online bumming around time, then reckoned i ought to probably start from the basics first! might do so during the break... would be cool, to actually learn something. got a couple links from the mozilla dev site lined up in a memo.
listened to the new ingrate ep during the lunchbreak, recognized a couple of the tunes from dj mixes i've heard prior (either oli xl's or ingrate's)! it's bandcamp friday today, so i bought that and some other things on there... a surprisingly pleasing amount of 2023 things within the tiny haul (of 6 things). gonna push the new things into the list table on my site sometime.
i have a battery tester, as per proverbially stealing a tip from two people that once came to the shop i work at while i was at work to dig thru the discard battery bin to salvage a few with some charge left in em. grabbed a bunch of aa and aaa batteries home today again to test thru em haha, some still salvageable. mildly go thru em both at home (for silly reasons mostly - the fairy lights, and my mp3 player if im in the mood to peruse it more actively) and at work (the storage room doorbell, xmas light samples set out during the xmas season... also the occasional 9v for the sensor-driven frontdoorbell), so it's a silly little moneysaving strat really. the tester i bought cost like 19ā¬, which i guess pays back after some while - and it draws the energy for the voltage display from the battery being tested !
finally washed the cat's food and drink tray (a fancy metal one!) after an absurdly long while tonight, which is nice. stupidly too lazy to clean her litterbox tonight though... maybe tomorrow.
anyway, looking forward to the workbreak ! going to see vegyn live next thursday in london as i've probably mentioned, and i'm also gonna go to helsinki for another music event, mostly drawn to there by the ecco2k dj set lmao, but the whole thing seems interesting. and can meet some friends n such ! heavily considering getting a uk sim card because it isnt even funny at this point lmao, the roaming would be exorbitant cos of fucking brexit (my phone plan has eu-inclusive data)!!! just got to do a lil more research about the providers, or maybe ask around a bit...
tue, sept 26 ~ 8:30pm
the usual mundane existence... sometimes i try to switch over into errand mode in my mind just so i could get some shit done. been more on top of such lately, i'd like to think. got to clean the cat litter box rn tho, might do so once i finish this journal entry... also wash my hair, a bit overdue.
oli xl posted about an event he's on at this friday in berlin, i can't make it cos of work but, he's apparently gonna do the first public-ish test run of his upcoming album there... :') no audio recording of it allowed which is highly respectable. would love to be there, but i'm not salty about not being able to - may be first session of who knows what amount, perhaps as part of some residency w the venue... kwia, it's named. it's tiny but seems very cozy. would love to visit one day. but either way i got fun plans for catching other events within the next couple months, and maybe sometimes i'd rather save up a bit instead of tryin to go to more (though i bet with 85% likelihood i'd at least HEAVILY consider going if i had enough days off around it lol).... and also, just excited about the album seemingly drawing nearer...!!!!! hopefully even this year still (though who knows with warp records' album release pipeline, beyond the evian christ album dropping in a month)
i felt really fragile emotionally last night for silly reason and beyond, though had a decent enough day when it came to doing things... sometimes emotions just be like that! part of it was out of sorta irrational worry somewhere deep within, but it's dispersed by now, which is good
tho also, my heart is full v3: some while back on some wednesday i went on a longer walk, was sort of listening to cartoon smile and such for some of it, felt softly vulnerable. at one point i decided to drop by a wednesdaily church service that was going on, out of shy curiosity. tho those are also broadcast online (my parents go to the particular congregation, hence me knowing), and the guy that was overseeing the streaming rig had (i presume) his son with him, around primary school age, and the latter was all sleeping on the guy's lap for some of it. felt very touched by that, kept wanting to cry just cos of that
tue, sept 19 ~ 10:30pm
i check some things online like twice a day these days. some nice cadence to it (i go thru stretches of time of refusing to be logged in on twi and insta on my phone, hence. think i'll reenable insta on my phone round the times i go on brief music-event-enabled trips in the coming months, will only be with my phone during those. but, other than that - fuck it, for now, probably)
ecco2k posted something new on instagram - it's cute to see a bunch of the ppl i follow in the post's likes. ambient online existence, or whatnot. (yeah i mediumkey do also look for a cheeky oli xl in the likes...i guess a carryover from when he'd posted a worrying insta story last year and my worry was soothed by seeing him in the likes of a recent-of-then ecco post a few hours later haha)
but also cute to see some bunch of friends/mutuals in the likes, in addition to artists i follow...
randomly saw the northern lights yesterday late evening, from my window, didn't even know they were active enough at that time til seeing the faint green glow (maybe i should sign up for the estonian aurora forecast site's notifs mailinglist...ok tho there's an english version of the site too)... but my phone also captured a bit of purple with the longer expo (10 sec). debated for a hot minute whether to wake up my parents for it (it was 11pm; my mom had semirecently mentioned how she's wanted to see the aurora), did end up doing so. cute. heres one of the pics i got:
sat, sept 16 ~ 4pm
at the pond of my parents' garden. chilling on one of them garden chairs, listening to music from the small wireless speaker i got (oli xl, naturally..not loudly tho). there's some fish in the pond, just fed them some flakes. some frogs and bugs about too, saw this really big dragonfly too... and it's nice sunny weather today, not too hot, the wind got some chill to it. my parents are away for the weekend rn, visiting one of my halfbrothers, so i've been tasked to water the hanging pot plants (strawberry plants and miscellaneous flowers) sometime tonight or tomorrow.
i got rather overstimulated from work today, so i'm just winding down really, or something. wasn't a bad day or anything, just busy at times while i was soloing the day, and one of the fluorescent lights near the checkout is busted to the point of bare occasional blinks on since yesterday though this annoyed me much much more yesterday... i'm glad i can get some alone time at home tho.
looking at the carrot bed right now, tempted to grab a few. and maybe some more strawberries too.
mon, sept 11 ~ 8:30pm
much of (human) existence feels intensely arbitrary to me as of recent...read the other day someones thought about how weeks are entirely a manmade Concept, and it's kind of stuck to my mind. most shit these days feels so arbitrary so may well spend time with what matters more, innit...i don't know. im intensely a creature of habit, but at the same time i rly gotta kick my ass bout shifting some stuff etc. will see. (at least i've managed to be cleaning the cat litter box more often these days, which is good)
and i've been listening to music much much more narrowly (+ a bit less) as of late - maybe as some type of coping mechanism for routine-y life, esp on top of how some of oli xl's music kind of switches my mind to some type of second gear that can handle same-y everyday life much more easily or something lmao idk, just feels nice in a way...and discovering new stuff takes (mental) energy, even just if picking out something from the backlog, and currently feeling like i gotta conserve it.
also it's already dim outside, the sun set nearly an hour ago...it's time to attempt to get used to earlier darktime once again, but i'm fine with this...i like the change of seasons, as i've probably said in here prior. and an excuse to eventually light something or other of the scented tea candles i got on the regular haha, and/or have the fairy lights on more of the time, it's cute stuff.
i've got thru 3 of my 5 library books by now, which is nice. i should bring back the ones i've read thru, but i simply haven't been passing by the current library whereabouts as of late cos i'd have to go out of my way a bit to end up there, and i'm not bothered to haul the books with me to work y'know. but maybe could tomorrow...and drop off the books on my way home.
i played some what the golf on my switch just earlier, over a long while. was fun for a change. honestly might whirl up mario kart more too while im at it
fri, sept 01 ~ 11pm
pinch ponch first of the month...feels a little strange that summer is ending! but at the same time it may be nice...cos i do enjoy the change of the seasons.
x-l.love and skyscanner.net remains a lethal combination, though it was a friend that pinged me to an event in november with oli in the lineup lmao (though oli had added the event to his site too, so i would've discovered it via there eventually), i'm heavily tempted but will see if i can snag tix and if i'm bothered to :O (boiler room festival so there Might be vids of the sets after the fact !)
on work fridays i like walking past the town sauna after work, while it's open (it's open on friday and saturday afternoons/evenings)...something about seein it bein open makes me very happy.
sat, aug 26 ~ 8pm
it's been a calm, slow, mundane existence these past couple of weeks
although...a book store opened in town this week, after what must've been a few years now of there not having been any book store in town, so that's pretty huge. i was too sluggish to go for opening hour, but i dropped by later that day, got a book that was quite discounted, and finished reading it today. and last weekend there were some festivities in town but i barely caught any, i think just some estonian big band performing at the central square before a sports thing, i accidentally stumbled upon it on a walk, and it was kinda funny bc my phone was suuuuuper low on battery (ended up getting home on like 2%) so i couldnt even record much lmao
meanwhile today...got out of bed at 6:30am, made myself a smoothie and some toast for breakfast, went to work (it was a decent day) til 2pm, went to the grocery store for cat litter and resisted getting a burger from the fastfoodplace ive frequented mainly cos there was a bit of a queue, went home and made some sort of fried-egg-with-cheesebits concoction within bread slices (in holes cut in em) instead, came out really good. then did fuck-all for a bit, read the aforementioned book til the end, played animal crossing (caught the tail end of bug-off haha, and the nice in-game sunset i decided to take timelapse-able pics of...), read a bit of the library book i'm reading thru atm, then the newest kate nv interview (it was rlly nice), then had some sponge cake, and now here i am...
talk of kate, i'm thinking about how its kinda cute how there was a 3-year gap between my 2nd and 3rd times of seeing her perform live, august 2019 in moscow vs august 2023 in ghent...and how both times (well, on the 1st time too) i've given her some lil paper cranes, and on the latter time she mentioned about how these got like some kind of stability to em or something :') it's funny, her music had been kind of off my radar for some time, and i only found out about the august 2023 thing cos of oli xl ! so that sort of reintroduced her to my radar, so cute.
oh and i've been going to bed earlier than my usual the past couple nights, around 10pm then, this. mostly as a response to having been super annoyed at barely having slept the night prior to that cos of some silly online shit. and both of the nights my cat has settled on my chest once i've got to bed š„¹š„¹ purring and all...
fri, aug 11 ~ 10pm
i kind of want to experiment with weekly notes or some shit but at the same time want to keep the timing format to the same journal scrawl ive had in here... i guess i could simply scrawl down what ive been vaguely up to this past while instead really
started crocheting a hat last weekend, as per an idea from a friend, i keep unravelling some and redoing and unravelling some and redoing it to get the shape right, i'm not really bothered to look up a pattern for the specific genre of hat i'm trying to imitate. it's kind of fun, though i've not reached the Detailing yet (will b even more fun!)
there was a red weather-warning for my home area for monday, but the stormy weather ended up just brushing past here, some other red-warninged parts of the country were a bit more affected...! but the weather's been more mild since, which i guess is nice even tho i can enjoy a (nonhumid plz) 30c day here and there
planned a second brief music-event-catching-related trip into october this week (in addition to catching vegyn, which i bought the tix for some time back and this week booked some accomms for too finally)... i Gotta catch evian christ live even tho ive seen him already, but thisd be my first one of his trance party eventseries which could be real cool. also got a desklamp and a basic digital alarm clock, the day i got paid... but at the same time trying not to much give in to the hesburger temptation at least this month, has been successful right now as the last time i went was on july 31st haha
been super slow with reading thru the books from the library now (have 2 of the 5 read and its been this way for a hot minute), but reckon i'll get back into the groove sometime... etc, my life's all an ebb and flow really.
wed, july 26 ~ 11pm
been feeling overwhelmed and scattered the past couple of days... just sort of overwhelmed by existence in general n how much of everything there is, good and bad and some stuff just sort of there. i dont know, i really want to sorta drastically cut down on parts of my current online habits just so i would not end up bumbling around aimlessly as much (ought i just lowkey do it, see how it feels?), feel a bit frustrated by the overwhelm etc, and my focus feeling terribly out of place. not even sure how to approach this. plus maybe some other stuff thats aggravating this. at least i get off work early tomoz and have friday off...
i guess bein on the spectrum has me doin some of this on hard mode, for whatever reason (i guess executive function struggles mainly...)...but also maybe lifts some other stuff. dunno. either way bit frustrated!!!
fri, july 21 ~ 8pm
if i don't scrawl down a journal post now i swear
went to the library somewhen during my 2nd week of summer break. it felt very nice, i hadn't visited the local library in ages, and not at all in its current temporary location, as its main building is undergoing a bit of a renovation... it was cozy there, lingered around in the reading room a bit, reading a couple of the newspapers and an every-two-months lit+poetry publication type thing, after gettin a few books. and they had biscuits and tea set out, and water.
the books i got, in random order, they're all in estonian...
- sƵnaraamat (2022, transl. dictionary') by anti saar
the author took upon himself to have some people send him some word at some time of day every day via messenger (10 sessions each approx 10 days) and writing whatever he associates with the words within like a 15-min time limit, which then got compiled into this book with minimal editing (of typos n such) - some little 2022 book of inspiring quotes compiled and translated into estonian
idk, randomly saw it set out on a shelf and decided to grab it - vƵlurite juures (2021, transl. at the wizards' (or something idk)) by mehis heinsaar
collection of novellas. this author writes like magical realism type shit, and is vaguely the closest thing to a fav author for me, or at least the most closely followed one (and even then super super vaguely) - kevaded ja aastad (2022, transl. springs and years) by tƵnu Ƶnnepalu
poetry book, saw it in the new lit section, went like why not - vaade (2022, transl. view) by jan kaus
the author pondering about views n his relationship to views ... as in like, scenic kinds, and other suchlike. also from the new lit section
been feeling pretty good this week... feels kind of nice to have More stuff to do even though ive been stupidly lazy some of worktime and been letting the Phone seep into my worktime!! but, the momentum is nice to have.
also managed to clear the air around something that'd been weighing my mind for legit months on the lowkey, embarrassing as it might be - the ambient feeling of ah hell what if ive been too much in relation to me being a bigass fan of a certain fellow (oli xl ofc) was getting emotionally conflated with other frankly entirely unrelated things in my mind, but finally figured i could just be like "hey btw sorry if ive ever made u uncomfy / overwhelmed at any point" at him and thank god he took it rly respectfully, genuinely a relief, felt nervewracking...! but i guess i just ought to tame this stupid wild horse of fixation+feeling best i can lmao (+ fortunately this whole feeling-ordeal barely impacted my enjoyment of his music :o which is quite nice)
planning to listen to rogue intruder tomorrow evening in sync with an online friend (been getting into vegyn cos of him HAHA but tbf have got him into oli a bit), as a lil listening party type thing, and to visit my best friend on sunday (and stay the night as i tend to; i got monday off). and, i've been wanting to decently digitize the spread of my friend diary ive had since like 2008, so that i could cutely have far-away friends fill it out too by whichever means :') have the pics taken of it, just need to clean up.
fri, july 07 ~ 3pm
sometimes i take one of the local town buses for a whole round for i guess therapeutic purposes if anything. still would even if local town buses weren't free of charge. theres something about rattling along familiar routes, music from earbuds, with little care (or lots of, idk).
thu, july 06 ~ 2:30pm
not much to say tbh, been on workbreak which is nice, have mostly just been chilling. have a couple plans for the weekend. other than that - slow existence, permission to rest, whatnot.
mon, june 26 ~ 11pm
some corners of my head feel hefty right now (though it's late anyway). felt the need to entirely log off a couple sites for a bit, i don't know. maybe i need some sort of break from even the online churn (at least most of it). mildly longer workbreak is just behind the horizon too... not much to say otherwise, i've been ok enough
there's this moth stuck in my room for the second night now, i want to get it out of the room, for its own sake. but it keeps flying into some hidden corner or other. will see.
sat, june 17 ~ 11pm
3 subsequent workdays tired my mind out a little, havent been up to that much on the offtime on the days. but i've managed to start a little craft project tonight, using some rlly cool multicolour yarn from an unravelled hat (that mom bought 2ndhand for me some time back iirc) as accent yarn. might share the result on the site, or might savor it for myself. will try to big rest tomorrow n enjoy the day, before another stretch of workdays before the long midsummer-weekend.
wed, june 14 ~ 9:30pm
did manage to drag the speaker+sub to the waste plant today and also visited a couple second-hand shops as i'd intended to, did find some nice stuff, finally have some longsleeved dress shirt thing to occasionally toss on again (gave the prior one away that was filling this niche haha), also got a couple more sleeveless tops n some other nice bits and bobs... and also a cute little teddy bear with banger fit (well, not little, quite solidly cuddleably large lmao). walked around a lot (intentionally left my phone home, but did take my mp3 player with me. the burdensome feeling of a (smart)phone is a whole other topic haha), happy with things today too
tue, june 13 ~ 9:30pm
wrt march 29: have now finally backed up my public deviantart deviations too (except maybe any significant comments, still yet to look thru which of the devs to keep up if any haha, reluctant on deleting them all cos i'd break some people's comments on there for if any mfs were to want to back em up in future, cos i've primarly uploaded emotes on there some of which some have used in comments ... but i'll see sometime, not like i'm planning to upload anything new on there, and my emotes not been used in any recent comments anyway so...)
mon, june 12 ~ 8pm
ended up staying up ridic late and woke at 1pm, so i ended up not really going anywhere. but i did manage to make some more granola from scratch and replant the begonia plants outside from my window, so i'm still satisfied with things today. a bit sleepy already tbh, might surrender to bed already or at least to rest for the rest of the evening before actually sleeping
sat, june 10 ~ 4pm
have got my discord acc back by now, which is alright. lil bit of paring down as i promised, but could do a lil more. have a couple days off comin up which is nice, might go to the library on monday, been a while, and might visit a second-hand shop or two, would like something longsleeved but light, i gave away the oversized-to-me dress shirt thing haha...have a speaker and the subwoofer of the aforementioned stereo system left behind as well, but the waste plant's closed on sundays and mondays so i guess wednesday it shall be...
listening to this estonian fm radio atm, vikerraadio, it has a larger bunch of talk-y shows. accidentally caught it during this cute thing where ppl call in to a voicemail-number telling birthday wishes n such n theyre played thruout the show, with the occasional song request. and currently some show on that talks about some topic or other important to elderly ppl, the current ep on is about funeral/grief outfits n some thing that translates to i guess graveyard holiday (tho not much observed these days; possibly local to hereabouts). pretty neat actually
wed, june 07 ~ 10:30pm
things: ate the first fresh strawberries of the season the other day it felt very nice; have been perusing my separate old mp3 player a bit more, feels bit more peaceful than listening via phone; don't have access to my discord acc atm and it's rattled my psyche around a little bit, hopefully get it back soon, will pare down my servers a little once i do; finally brought the old shoddy, buggy and long-unused hand-me-down stereo system to the local waste plant so that's nice; doing small makeovers to my animal crossing island...
tue, may 30 ~ 3pm
at this hotel and spa centre today, the outing organized by the workplace (or the higher-ups of the branch my shop's part of rly, a bunch of us from diff shops partaking), could be nice. thankfully i didnt pick any hand-specific procedures lol mine're a little bandaided up atm, but the general partial massage could b super nice, ive never gone in for one ngl (closest thing's been a breast examination once lol), my back might thank me a bit
sun, may 28 ~ 5:30pm
the event was very nice. been kinda resting today but also feeling a bit down for some of it, feel so selfconscious about parts of myself / my mind sometimes and dont know how to balance it out, for now. it's all roles really i guess but i dont seem to have any reliable space for existin outside of those n just being for now (living w my parents n all). also sometimes i wanna punt around half of my online existence out the window for some reason, u feel (this is prob part related to the feeling)
fri, may 19 ~ 8:30pm
got thru a 4-day workday-stretch, my legs are Sore (and tbf did also walk a bunch outside of work i guess haha)
going to tallinn tomorrow for tallinn's own sake for a change ... catching a couple nifty music events :o seeing boris (the band from japan; along w another band) live despite barely having listened to them but familiar enough to know i'd be into the gig... and then catching another thing after that that goes on til morning or something, with another vaguely-trustworthily-familiar name (estoc) in the lineup amongst some locals
though i reckoned maybe i need rest more cos i have another 4-workday stretch coming up...but at the same time Life's Too Short Not To innit, and tallinn just about close enough still for me
thu, apr 27 ~ 2pm
solidly back from the trip and unpacked by now. returned with more items of clothing than i expected hahaha, i guess that's on me for going to camden market mainly just to check out cyberdog, only ended up getting rainbow socks from there but the store had a crazy vibe. and also got a couple pairs of pants and a couple skirts from a couple other places in there, couldn't resist, the pants had such nice fabricfeel and all
pw show was nice as well even tho most of his discog dusty in my brain but he did play some of my more faves from across it so that was cool
and got to hang out w a friend (again) and had him finally fill out the friend diary thing i sometimes haul along when i want some friend or other to fill it out, was a lovely time
though i had like a couple months' worth of longdistance bus riding omw back home haha, time to enjoy the more static state for the rest of my break, gonna see what to get up to at home
currently checking out the bubble rhythm machine (extended and variations) by wouter van veldhoven from my youtube backlog, very cool
mon, apr 24 ~ 2pm
currently waiting at my flight's gate, seeing patrick wolf perform in london later today, which could be very nice. i enjoy physically transitory states sometimes. i wonder if i'll be able to catch the booked bus home on wednesday, hopefully the flight back lands in some gate nearer to the main entrance/exit...though itll be such a funny amount of bus riding, but i like em.
mon, apr 17 ~ 8pm
feel like my "consuming" (for lack of a better term) of some mediastuff feels a bit noisy right now, want to prune stuff a bit on mostly insta, want to take in art in particular a little more deliberately i feel like, and i kind of want to doodle/draw more but havin this steady noisy feedflow of art is intimidating me out of that if that makes sense haha
i guess some feeling of wanting to let my head brew all this input and concoct something out of that in peace in my own way with less of outside influence, y'know?
tue, apr 04 ~ 11:30am
reading thru a thing atm
thinking about memories of warm naps, too lazy to elaborate right now.
wed, mar 29 ~ 11pm
i've taken to trying to decently back up my deviantart deviations stuff as i'm not active there anymore, used to pixel and upload a lot of emotes on there ca 2009-2011 or so... bit painstaking (fetching the pics themselves and the titles - dates - descriptions, rare screengrab of some fun comment thread or other), but i've handled everything in private storage by now so it's something... maybe i'll showcase notable things on this site someday haha
migrated the 2.1 speakers back into my room, broke the turntable back out from my closet so i could whirl some record or other if i wanted to (got my hands on this record yesterday, was such stupid joy to listen to the oli loop directly from the vinyl copy LMAO), absorbed the electric sewing machine into my room in case i want to dabble in sewing something (i do want to!! but first i'll need to figure out what and how, i do have some sorta fabrics in my closet, mostly yellow and floral), at least its manual is intact too, thank n bless.
sun, mar 12 ~ 11pm
my heart is full v1: a mix by a friend of mine which couples cartoon smile by oli xl with rly cozy tunes both before and after it, illegally lovely to the point of some tears a couple times. bought the cfcf release blanketed in snow a place returned is from during the latest bandcamp friday, after having checked the whole album out and having rly liked it. n this kind of tethered blanketed in snow to my soul somewhat, by way of having fit so well with cartoon smile in the mix, and that tune being so deeprooted in me (as yall might be aware of) :')
my heart is full v2: one of my middle-school-time teachers, the one who was the only one (edit: from every1 in middle school at the time, perhaps excluding my best friend) to remember my birthday one year when i was still in middle school, visited the shop i work at again yesterday. bought a couple catgrass seedpacks and a newspaper. she told me about how another of my middle-school-time teachers has been baking her bread on the weekly and has been so diligent with it that she's not had to buy bread from the store for a couple of years now :')
wed, mar 08 ~ 4pm
happy womens day to whoever celebrates, i feel barely a connection with that part of me but it's still kind of neat to get the occasional gift haha (the boss brought us tulips and a snack platter at work today)
been feeling nearly at my limit as of late, mentally mostly, trying to juggle that somehow, to my okayest ability. but at least the cold has mostly cleared, just a bit of a cough left...
mon, feb 27 ~ 9pm
ole mundane existence been takin my energy as of late really, so not been any updates on my site, but not apologetic bout that... plus i went on the lil weekend trip to berlin which i mentioned about in here a bit, got the classic bounce from the berghain/panorama bar door (new sneek-proverb, for facing inconveniences: "well at least it's no being bounced after waiting 3.5 hours in berghain queue in shitty weather for a lineup you rly liked" lmao), but also still saw malibu, of the french and ambient kind, live ! and briefly got to meet ecco there instead haha
and also have managed to catch some sort of coldbug probably from mom AGAIN, sitting here with a variably mildly fucked up throat and now a runny nose as well. but my manager still on sick leave with headaches, hopefully returning from fri, so i'm sort of just trying to cope best i can haha, but i'll get back in the groove of fiddling w the lil site and whatnot some more down the line, after i get a lil better healthwise
been having this rolling memo widget on my phone homescreen of planning out my days, trying to have some type of routine, though living with my parents throws some cogs into that mostly mentally which is ass but it's whatever, i'll deal. lots of emojis in there atm, i do like my silly little images
mon, feb 06 ~ 9pm
the wintry feeling slowly starting to back away... finally still light again at 4pm, 5pm, and slowly getting lighter by the day. but whether i'm ready to slowly pick up slack is a different question. though i do feel a bit of spring in my heart by now
i don't feel like i've been up to much lately... mostly just maintenant existence, possible slow improvements, occasional indulgin' in life's fine things
thinkin about how to expand upon the music enjoyin page on my site, and i have some thoughts for sure
tue, jan 24 ~ 9pm
looking forward to an event im catching in a month...! though ecco2k was added to its lineup today so i swear if i have to jokingly fight ppl in the queue bc im literally arriving maybe like 2 hrs prior to event start and would like to get in too hahahahah (id probably just talk their heads off about oli xl instead, cuz the event has oli too)
very excited all the same... maybe i could finally give ecco a paper crane...!
as for the everyday, it's been... everydaily.
have been doing this dumb triplewield of flight rising / youtube / tiny rails, saw someone on the fr forums mention tiny rails in a thread about someone asking for mobile game recs, it made me remember i tried it out a bit once and liked it aaaaand now im big into it in this type of semi-idle setup of it hahah
and at least this way my youtube watch later list finally getting some attention too...
thu, jan 19 ~ 12am
i like how this is a little genre of screenshot i have (2023 vs 2016 vs 2012):
last.fm desktop scrobbler pulling through in all of them which is fun to see, and all these parallels and yet differences too
wed, jan 11 ~ 11pm
the everyday: back at work since yesterday, though had today off, although my throat still troubles me a little bit but i'm able to be out and about. i should drink more tea and get some generic throat-soothing pastille thingies from store or pharmacy... could probably drop by omw home from work tmrw
the music enjoying: i generally say im an albums / artists oriented person and generally dont shuffle but its more that i do enjoy shuffling thru my established library, its just that i dont discover well on shuffle u get me
(my first couple of oli xl listens were actually through mobile spotify forced-shuffle in dec 2020 when i was 1) into ecco2k a lot and 2) on free spotify and spitefully not wanting to pay full [im on a friends family plan since round then] ... i wonder what i thought about the songs back then, on cursory listen ?)
the shy: i want to abridge the journal entry with the slowed cartoon smile emotional moment describin, snip some of the pre-context... but i guess first write it over into my physical personal diary in its unabridged form, to preserve it. feels silly to be so softly vulnerable online!
sun, jan 08 ~ 11am
feeling a bit better now/currently. it really is just step by stupid tiny step towards more ideal circumstances, no other choice, is there
finally got to the load of laundry, too, it should finish soon, maybe i can put it to dry before my parents get back (update: did manage to)
sat, jan 07 ~ 10pm
heart feels heavy atm because of some stupid stuff but it'll pass...
thu, jan 05 ~ 10pm-11pm
i just had this insanely emotional moment.
so, i was listening to oli xl slowed down to like 50% or so, regular slowing pitch unaffected, through foobar2k (it's neat it has the options to manipulate music like that in realtime). was just sort of getting lost in the intricacies slowed down like this... from some point onward i was lying down on my bedroom floor as i listened, on top of my blanket all piled up, in this half-fetal pose next to my laptop on its stand. and went even slower at some point, maybe listenin at 25%, felt rlly soft, rlly relaxed...
queued cartoon smile up next on a last-second whim. it's well established itself as one of my biggest comfort songs of current, as is clear from my little zineshrine for it, though i'd been feeling it waning a bit into the background, which is fair with songs sometimes of course. but this time...
as i was lying down, in this really really relaxed and a lil bit tenderhearted state, letting the song wash over me in its significantly slowed state... it made me feel like... a little field of flowers somehow, with all its whole tiny little ecosystems within, on a clearish summer morning, or evening, wind rustling through a bit, lit up by the gentle sun. ticking by its own little rhythms.
and i felt really overwhelmed, by this feeling of... oneness with nature or the world, or something. i don't know, i can't really put into words the sheer effect this had on me, but it felt really significant, really special, and unexpected, and it had me crying, from this... simultaneously complex and yet so simple joy, and love.
on this evening, 10pm, with all my lights automatically shut off by then, but outside this dark warmth and safety of my room a cold clear night, moonlit, not directly visible from my window but could clearly see it shining upon surfaces outside. and tomorrow forecasting a sunny day, as was for some of today over a longer while as well.
and me, feeling better than i've been -- throat not sore anymore, only a bit sensitive -- able to enjoy (en-joy...) existing a lil more again.
and other people directly around me, mostly safe in their own little realms, their own little interior cocoons at this time of night... me, safe in mine.
i simply needed to put this tender state into words...
(read as: hi world i <3 you i felt safe to share this with you i'm so glad i can)
mon, jan 02 ~ evening
been busy coughing this year... my throat having this dumb stupid redness and easily-irritability this is hell. can barely even enjoy this sick-leave time off work bc of that. maybe i ought to just. look at things or listen to things bc i cant rlly make things much in this coughy state
but got a prescription from my gp which should hopefully target the throat a bit
and at the very least i enjoyed my last moments of 2022
[2022]
tue, dec 27 ~ 6pm
shoutout to the ppl from discord servers im in that drop by via my discord bio and drop something into the guestbox too hehe :') im too shy to reply to any comments in there, i'd feel obligated to reply to each ...listening to Legendary Estonian Pop Singer Anne Veski rn its kind of fun haha
i feel too shy to want to keep up the longer-form journaling, don't know why. anyway 3 days of work comin up (i mean, it's just a silly cycle of some days of work some days off really) but its gonna be chill probably. so thats alright enough
might take this impending new year's as an excuse to attempt to shift some of my habits. tho i gotta keep in mind that i can't do these things overnight yadda yadda bla bla
at least i finally added some links in the garden on here !! lil advancements.
sun, dec 25 ~ 9:30pm
merry miscellaneous festive times of year to whoever might celebrate !
might try go for less frequent more longform silly journaling in here... maybe. will see how it works out, tho an average mundane week's thoughts n feelings n memories tend to all just blend together generally. and also i tend to get awfully rambly sometimes which may make things a bit more difficult to read lmao but fuck it i ball tbh
anyway, didnt manage to make any extra dough as i said i wanted to, havent had the energy to even make gingerbreads from the existing stuff either, but theres time so im not worrying about that. kind of survived my halfbro's fam's stay mentally (theyre leaving tomorrow)
though yesterday [bc in estonia we generally celebrate on xmas eve] ... yesterday was sort of unnecessarystressmas. i arrived the family lunch like 20min late so i felt a bit left out bc everyone else had already finished with the main stuff, tho at least i got to eat the dessertstuff together w em haha; had pics taken w mom n all her handful of kids incl me, i hope they keep the blooper-y pics those r the most fun ones; anyway, i felt vaguely bad for the little ones (nephew n niece, im awful with ages so idk how old they exactly are but id say around 5 and 3?) they got so overburdened with the xmas gifts haha. after this tomfoolery, round 6pm, i wanted to wash the dishes to sort of destress, but my mom was already in the process of that so i just sort of sank into bed to be with my cat (poor fella also bit stressed, from the kidpresence) n didnt leave til 10am the next day
today was okayer, went to some local skiing centre thing w halfbro's fam so i could keep watch of the niece n sled a bit while the others ski, was pretty alright
the week in general was also pretty ok, pretty mundane, didn't really feel like xmas week to be honest ... the one distinct stupid thing thats stuck to my memory was getting another visit at the shop i work at from some dense older man regular customer who keeps kind of trying to flirt with me? and gifting me a rose on occasion, this time a box of candies too. nice gift from the completely wrong kind of person, bro could be my father hes probably old enough, and i say dense because im, first of all, a 20something, and second of all, frequently wear rainbow pants which is such a clear sign of queerness that i once had kids call out on the gayness of my fit on two unrelated moments of a long walk LMAO
oh yeah and i assembled the little storage cabinet thing pretty soon after mentioning it here, got to shove all my socks and undies from a box on the windowsill into one of its drawers so that's really nice.
have been carrying this stupid lazy mashup idea in my head since last december - 12 days of xmas (edit: looked it up, the bing crosby version) x hesitate by oli xl. last december at work i would listen to stuff from one earbud a lot, and once happened upon the brainmelting moment of those two playing simultaneously, one from the radio, one from my earbud. and the tempos matched up p much perfectly lol
intents for the coming week...
make the gingerbreads at some point, fix up the sleeve ends of a woollen sweater i have a little better, do laundry (have had a load of it developing, plus want to give away some clothes too and wash them prior too).
see about... sleeping through new year's midnight for once, i want to ring it in more blissfully. maybe like.. head out very early morning, maybe to the beach. lil sparkler, oli-xl-cartoon-smile.mp3...
wed, dec 21 ~ 6pm nearly
slightly obsessed with the new addition to my keychain (the golden prong looking thing, which i discovered exists in the shop i work at)
because look...secretly a tiny screwdriver! (why i would need a tiny screwdriver on my person at all times i dont know but also just idk i liked the look and feel of it too haha)
mon, dec 19 ~ 11pm
dont think i have much time this week to much fiddle with my site even tho i have ideas n wanna !! needa drag my brain along the everyday, make gingerbreads (and maybe addtl gingerbread dough) sometime, clean my room bit by bit and possibly help w cleaning elsewhere... in addition to workin (have thurs off so theres that at least)
maybe i could proceed thus
- attempt making gingerbread dough either tues evening or wednes evening, though parental presence poses a mild challenge bc i prefer to get up to major cooking shenanigans while theyre not home
- i guess i could leave the possible help-clean idleness energy onto thurs, because need the stuff clean by fri evening or something
- well and cleaning my own room bit by bit as i go along, while listening to music ! and some decorating too, i bought some deco today.
- and still the tryin not to just sit around on discord or something...
and then i have sunday off (as usual) and monday and tuesday as well, can rest... and set up the lil storage cabinet type thingy i bought today, wooden frame and nonwoven clothy type storageboxes. (Likelihood Of Children Within Xmas Guests and not sure of how sturdy it would stand in the hands of A Child. and i can figure out til then what to store inside it)
tue, dec 13 ~ 10pm
thoughts like wind:
rinsed my face with cold water, for a blip thought myself into summer where i would appreciate the sensation of cold water more than now (but its nice even now)
could probably ponder more upon this but im not bothered to, currently
the everyday:
- got tired of pasta for lunch for workdays for now, currently making basic lil wraps into plastic to-go boxes ... will see where i go once i run out of the lil tortillas
- mom organizing a xmas (eve) lunch on 24th, w all my brothers n all, just round when my workday ends lol ... gonna have to mentally prepare
- music balancing: oli xl and his tiny discog and my big fixation, vs the big backlog of stuff i wanna check out and am checking out (currently mainly on bandcamp)
- i went to the reuse centre today, to see if they have any sledtype things (no), got a small skein of colourful yarn and three whole necklaces - one of some sort of pink syntheticlooking beads in two different shapes, one with tiny seashells (real nice touchfeel...), one regular one with a musical note pendant (my brain immediately went [doss reference] It's the music. šµ), totalled to 2.70ā¬. gonna have to see how to slot the necklaces into my silly lil style
energy levels:
okayer than has been. still gotta put in some effort to try direct this silly aimlessless energy more satisfyingly
thu, dec 8 ~ 11:30pm
feeling nostalgic cuz of google maps local street view history + the current tune im listening to
love some of the rating descriptions on someones rym profile that i stumbled on - 5.0 - lovely jazz / 4.5 - best funk / 4.0 - my best friend / 3.5 - made me grow 3 new leaves / 3.0 - my friend
music that makes me grow new leaves... love
sat, dec 3 ~ 11:30am
winter really nudging me to slow down on all frots this time around, and yet struggling to figure out how to digitally/virtually slow down in ways that wouldn't make my brain wanna explode from vague overwhelm or underwhelm or lack of outlets for expressin itself by rambling or connection or other ways...
(helps that i work at a small gardening n home supplies shop, its peak time is in spring into early summer too. i like it, i've been able to handle it well (despite my patchy gardening knowledge haha). my fave season is the change of seasons really)
got to try dig into handicrafts more
but it's an executive function struggle really
(being on discord eats a lot of my online time (and energy) rn, ought i try a more general break from it; already only visiting it via browser)
my room bit more cluttered than i'd like it to be too rn... but that's several organizatory struggles in a trench coat also
thu, dec 1 ~ 10pm
listening to some stuff on bandcamp to see what i wanna cop tomorrow for bc friday... currently listening to aestum's selftitled album, it's dreamy stuff. (a friend brought it up to me because there are some vox from bobbie orkid who also did the outro voiceover in go oli go! by oli xl...!)
have one more thing lined up after this but i should probably steer myself towards bed instead...will see
i would say its been a lazy day, but i literally went on a three-hour walk today... was quite nice
also v much seen the guestbook comments n appreciate em :')